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Head finely and sparingly punctured, with a short but deep 

 oblique dépression in front of the eyes, indicating the limit of the 

 clypeus at the sides, anterior margin of the clypeus nearly straight, 

 antennse black, the lower four joints flavous, third and fourth joint 

 equal, terminal joints slender; thorax more Ihan twice as broad as 

 long, the sides subangulate near the base, strongly narrowed ante- 

 riorly, the surface rather finely but not very closely punctured, 

 flavous, the sides, apex and base narrowly margined, elytra with 

 deep basai dépressions, rather strongly punctate-striate anteriorly, 

 the apex nearly impunctate, the interstices flat, the sides below the 

 shoulders with a short oblique costa, the dise black, the apex 

 flavous; below and the legs flavous, the femora with an extremely 

 small tooth. 



A small species and principally distinguished by the colour of 

 the elytra. 



NODOSTOMA ANDREWESI sp. n. 



Entirely fulvous or black and fulvous, the thorax closely and 

 finely punctured, with the sides rounded at the base; elytra with 

 deep basai dépression, strongly punctate-striate, the interstices 

 convex, strongly costate at the sides, black, a suturai band, 

 narrowed posteriorly, fulvous. 



Var. a. Entirely fulvous. 



Var. b. Black, the head and basai joints of the antennae fulvous 

 on! y. 



Length 4 mill. 



Head very deeply but subremotely punctured, the clypeus not 

 separated from the face, antenna3 rather short, the third joint 

 shorter than the fourth, the latter and foUowing joints elongate and 

 slender, eyes large and prominent; thorax twice as broad as long, 

 narrowed anteriorly, the sides rounded at the base, but not angulate, 

 obliquely narrowed anteriorly, the surface finely and closely punc- 

 tured, the punctures partly of elongate shape, the dise with an 

 obsolète transverse dépression at each side, scutellum smooth; 

 elytra subquadrate-ovate, with a very deep dépression below the 

 base, very deeply but not very regularly punctate-striate, the 

 interstices convex, those at the sides strongly longitudinally 

 costate, of oblique direction and partly confluent; femora with a 

 very minute tooth, 



ïhesculpturingof thisspecies is différent then inmostof itsnume- 

 rous allies on account of the deep elytral dépression and their 

 strongly costate interstices; one of the spécimens is of almost black 

 coloration, the head, an elytral suturai band and the tarsi being 



