104 NEW SPECIES OF INDIAN PHYTOPHAGA 



middle, a similar narrow stripe accompanies the suture at the 

 middle and is connected at its lower end with a black spot, placed 

 more inwards and at some distance from the apex; the flancs of the 

 thorax, the sides of the breast and the abdomen are likewise black; 

 legs flavous. 



Hah. Mysore, India. 



There will be no difficulty in recognizing this rather abnormally 

 structured species on account of the pubescent head and thorax and 

 the markings of the elytra; all other structural characters agree 

 with Nodostoma. 



NODOSTOMA ROTUNDICOLLIS n. sp. 



Elongate, black, above dark fulvous, the knees and apex of the 

 tibiae piceous, head and thorax rugose punctate, sides of the latter 

 rounded, elytra deeply punctate-striate, the interstices longitudi- 

 nally costate, the sides with a black stripe, femora with a small 

 tooth, the anterior ones strongly thickened and elongate, their 

 tibiee curved and dilated at the apex. 



Length 7 mill. 



Head strongly rugose punctate, the epistome not separated, its 

 anterior margin deeply concave-emarginate, mandibles black, 

 robust, antennae filiform, fulvous, the 7'^ 8"' and 9^'^ joint black, 

 the terminal ones wanting, basal joint short and broad, second one 

 curved and slender, nearly as long as the first, third joint slightly 

 longer than the second, fourth much longer; thorax one half 

 broader than long, of equal width, the sides strongly rounded, pos- 

 terior angles in shape of a small tooth, the surface strongly and 

 deeply rugose-punctate, with a deep transverse groove near the 

 anterior margin ; elytra wider at the base than the thorax, elongate 

 and rather flattened, deeply transversely depressed below the base, 

 strongly punctured in closely approached rows which are less regu- 

 lar within the depression and below the shoulders, where the 

 interstices form transverse rugosities, the interspaces at the disc 

 longitudinally costate, the colour dark fulvous, the lateral margin 

 at the middle stained with black, below, as well as the under side of 

 the anterior femora and the flancs of the thorax, black; the anterior 

 legs very elongate, their femora very strongly incrassate, with a 

 small tooth, the anterior tibiae slightly curved, deeply sulcate or 

 chanelled, the apex suddenly thickened and angulate; prosternum 

 broad, black, deeply punctured at its posterior portion. 



Hab. Khasia Hills, Assam. (My collection.) 



A very aberrant species of which I possess a single specimen; 

 the more than usually thickened anterior femora and the length of 



