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specimens are before me, of the variety several others which do not 

 difler in any way except in the absence of any dark markings; the 

 species may therefore be known by the strongly punctured 

 thorax in connection witli the angulate sides of the latter near 

 the base. 



NODOSTOMA KANARAENSE Jac. 



This species, described by me in the Belgian Annals for 1895 

 must be placed in Pagria on account of the broad sulcus above the 

 eyes which I overlooked at the time of the description ; the insect is 

 identical in appearance with P. ceneicoUis Lefev. from Sumatra 

 but differs principally in the very strongly punctured thorax, the 

 latter in the allied species is only strongly punctured at the sides, 

 not throughout. 



TRICHOCHRYSEA SEVERINl n. sp. 



Metallic cupreous or brownish aeneous, clothed with long whi- 

 tish pubescence, the lower joints of the antennae and the tibiae more 

 or less fulvous, thorax transverse, rather strongly and closely punc- 

 tured, elytra more finely and irregularly punctate, the punctures 

 nearly obsolete at the apex. 



Length 5 mill. 



Head finely and rather closely punctured, more or less cupreous, 

 the clypeus semicircularly emarginate at its anterior margin, 

 labrum flavous, stained with metallic green or aeneous, antennae 

 with the lower five or six joints fulvous, the rest fuscous; thorax 

 twice as broad as long, the sides rounded, the surface moderately 

 strongly but closely punctured, clothed with long whitish pubes- 

 cence, with which are mixed some black hairs, elytra wider at the 

 base than the thorax, obsoletely depressed below the base, more 

 finely punctured than the thorax, the punctuation getting very 

 fine towards the apex, the surface similarly pubescent, below and 

 the legs aeneous like the upper side, the apex of the tibiae often 

 fulvous. 



Hab. Mandar, Bengal. 



Smaller than T. vestita Baly (sub Heteraspis), the thorax more 

 transverse, much less coarsely and closely punctured, the teeth at 

 the sides of the clypeus and the tubercle of the thorax near the 

 anterior angles nearly absent, very prominent in T. vestita, 

 T. oineipennis Lefev. has differently coloured antennae and a very 

 finely punctured thorax, is also much larger in size; T. nilida Jac. 

 (sub Heteraspis) from Birmah, is of metallic green colour with an 

 extremely closely and regularly punctured thorax and elytra. 



MBMOIRES DE LA SOG. ENTOM. DK BSLGIQUE, T. VII. 8 



