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B. Antennce slender, Jiliform, joints cylindrical; body smooth, elon- 

 gate or narrowly oblong, non-metallic. 



a. Legs very long ; thighs very slender at the base (Basile'pta, milii, 



olim). 



5. Nodostoma longipes, Baly. 



Basilepta longipes, Baly, Journ. of Entom. i. p. 23, pi. i. fig. 1. 



Subelongatum, valde convexum, nitidum, supra obscure viridi- 

 aeneum ; pedibus elytrorumque tuberculo obscure piceis, 

 corpore subtus antennisque (harum basi fulva excepta) nigro- 

 piceis ; thorace antice gibboso, lateribus angulatis ; femoribus 

 longissimis, basi valde attenuatis, posterioribus subtus dente 

 acuto arraatis. 



Long. 2 lin. 



Hab. Borneo. 



Subelongate, very convex, nitidous, above obscure metallic- 

 green ; body beneath and the antennae (the fulvous base of the 

 latter excepted) obscure pitchy-black ; a large shining circular 

 protuberance on the basilar space of each elytron, together with 

 the legs, piceous; attenuated base of four posterior thighs obscure 

 fulvous. Head smooth above, forehead with a longitudinal 

 groove; lower portion of face deeply punctured; antennae slender, 

 filiform, longer than the body, three basal joints obscure fulvous. 

 Thorax rather longer than broad ; sides produced and angled just 

 behind their middle, their hinder portion sinuate ; above trans- 

 verse, convex, gradually thickened and gibbose towards the apex ; 

 surface deeply rugose-punctate, interstices irregularly thickened ; 

 gibbose portion nearly impunctate. Scutellum subtrigonate. 

 Elytra much broader at the base than the tliorax, nearly three 

 times the length, slightly narrowed behind, convex ; each elytron 

 with eleven rows of distinct punctate strise, the first abbre- 

 viated ; on the posterior half nearly all the striae become ob- 

 solete, whilst on the epipleura are two short additional rows, 

 making the total number across that portion of the surface thir- 

 teen ; humeral callus elevated into a short oblique compressed 

 ridge ; on the basilar space is a distinctly raised circular piceous 

 protuberance, its circumference bounded by an indistinct circular 

 groove, the surface smooth and shining, impunctate. Body be- 

 neath obscure nigro-piceous ; legs piceous, elongate, basal half of 

 thighs slender, filiform, apical half flask-shaped, two posterior 



