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jaws piceous, their apex black ; antennas nearly two-thirds the 

 length of the body, seven outer joints compressed and dilated, four 

 basal joints cylindrical, pale fulvous ; eyes prominent, nearly en- 

 tire. Thorax twice as broad as long ; sides rounded, converging 

 from behind the middle to the apex ; anterior angles tuberculate, 

 hinder armed with a subacute tooth ; surface subremotely punc- 

 tured. Elytra oblong, broader than the thorax, slightly im- 

 pressed below the basilar space, distinctly sulcate within the 

 humeral callus, the latter thickened ; surface distinctly punc- 

 tate-striate ; striae less strongly punctured towards the apex ; 

 interspaces finely and remotely punctured. 



2. Nodostoma trivittalum, n. sp. 



Breviter ovatum, valde convexum, fulvum, nitidum ; antennis 

 robustis, basi fulvis, apice albidis ; thorace remote subte- 

 nuiter punctato ; elytris thorace latioribus, convexis, infra 

 basin non excavatis, distincte sed tenuiter punctato-striatis, 

 interspatiis minute subremote punctatis, linea suturali lim- 

 boque laterali nigris; femoribus muticis ; tarsis piceis. 



Long. 2 lin. 



Hab. Borneo. 



Head short ; centre of front impressed with a short longi- 

 tudinal groove ; vertex nearly impunctate, lower portion of face 

 remotely punctured ; epistome broader than long, its apex con- 

 tinuous with the front, sides straight, converging backwards, 

 anterior border concave-emarginate ; antennae robust, half the 

 length of the body, seven outer joints thickened and slightly com- 

 pressed, three lower joints fulvous, tenth piceous, eleventh white. 

 Thorax twice as broad as long ; sides rounded and converging 

 from base to apex, all the angles tuberculate ; surface distinctly 

 but remotely punctured. Scutellum elongate-trigonate, its apex 

 obtuse. Elytra broader than the thorax, parallel, convex, finely 

 but distinctly punctured ; interspaces very finely punctured. 

 Legs robust, 



3. Nodostoma ajncale, n, sp. 



Ovatum, valde convexum, obscure fulvum, nitidum ; pedibus 

 rufo-piceis ; antennis robustis, ingris, basi fulvis, apice albi- 

 dis ; thorace subtenuiter remote punctato ; elytris thorace 

 latioribus, convexis, infra basin non excavatis, sat fortiter 



