NEW SPECIES OF INDIAN PHYTOPHA.GA 103 



Head remotely but rather strongly punctured, the epistome scar- 

 cely separated from the face, antennae black, the basal two joints 

 fulvous; thorax twice as broad as long, the sides rather obtusely 

 angulale below the middle, from there straight and obliquely nar- 

 rowed to the apex, the anterior angles dentiform, the disc transver- 

 sely sulcate near the anterior margin at the sides, the sulcus abso- 

 lete at the middle, the surface remotely and sparingly punctured, 

 the punctures scarcely more numerous at the sides than at the 

 middle, scutellum blackish, elytra with a deep depression below the 

 base, the shoulders very prominent, the punctuation strong and 

 rather irregular within the depression, more finely and regular 

 below the middle, nearly indistinct near the apex, below black. 



Hab. Sikkim, India. 



The principal characters which distinguish this species from 

 others with similarly coloured upper surface, is the black under 

 side and the sparingly punctured thorax in connection with the 

 proportionately large size of the species. The angle at the sides of 

 the thorax is rather obsolete and not closely placed to the base but 

 below the middle, the two specimens contained in my collection do 

 not differ except in the colour of the legs which are entirely fulvous 

 in one specimen with the exception of the black tarsi, in the other 

 the knees, tibiae and tarsi of the anterior legs and the entire poste- 

 rior legs are black. 



NODOSTOMA ANGHORALIS n. sp. 



Flavous, the antennae and the sides of the breast black, head and 

 thorax finely pubescent, each with a central black spot, elytra 

 strongly punctured, irregularly so at the base, the interstices more 

 or less costate, flavous, a sutural stripe at the middle, attached to a 

 lower spot, forming an anchor-shaped mark, black. 



Length 3 mill. 



Head rather closely and finely punctured, flavous, the middle 

 with a black band, the epistome not separated from the face, elytra 

 fuscous or blackish, the lower two joints flavous (the terminal ones 

 wanting), thorax more than twice as broad as long, the sides stron- 

 gly angularly produced below the middle, the posterior angles den- 

 tiform, the surface closely and rather finely punctured and clothed 

 with short whitish hairs, the middle of the disc with a round black 

 spot, scutellum black, elytra with a depression below the base, the 

 latter closely, strongly and irregularly punctured, the rest of the 

 surface strongly punctate-striate, the interstices costate, the shoul- 

 ders very strongly raised, followed by a row of tubercles near the 

 lateral margins, the latter preceded by a black stripe extending to the 



