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piceous ; hinder border also narrowly stained with piceous. Scu- 

 telliim longer than broad, trigonate, piceo-fulvous. Elytra scarcely 

 broader than the thorax, parallel, deeply excavated below the 

 basilar space and within the humeral callus, the latt.r thickened ; 

 striae entire, strongly punctured and sulcate in front, the inter- 

 spaces convex ; behind the middle the punctures are less deeply 

 impressed, and the interspaces plane ; each elytron with a narrow 

 piceous sutural line, and three small markings, piceous ; viz., 

 one on the basilar space, another submarginal, placed just below 

 the shoulder, and a third, transverse, situated on the subbasilar 

 excavation, and sending a branch upwards between the humeral 

 callus and basilar space. Anterior pair of thighs strongly 

 thickened. 



c. Legs of normal length, 



16. Nodostoma cylindricum, Baly. 

 (TV. cylindrica), Desc. New Gen. and Spec. Phyt. p. 13. 



Elongatum, angustatum, subcylindricum, flavo-fulvum, nitidum ; 

 elytrorum macula subapicali nigro-piced ; thorace subremote 

 punctato ; elytris striato-punciatis, interspatiis planis ; femo- 

 ribus anticis dente brevi armatis. 



Long. 2| lin. 



Hab. Borneo (Sarawak). 



Head rather broad, moderately exserted, nitidous, impressed 

 here and there with large deep punctures, which are more crowded 

 on the epistome than on the front ; epistome forming a single 

 piece with the front, its anterior margin subangulate-emarginate ; 

 eyes oblong, black, their inner edge slightly sinuate; jaws piceous, 

 their apex black ; antennae filiform. Thorax slightly broader 

 than long ; sides nearly straight and parallel at the base, thence 

 rounded and converging to the apex, all the angles tuberculate ; 

 surface deeply and remotely punctured, the punctures rather 

 more crowded at the base and sides. Scutellum elongate-trigo- 

 nate, its apex obtusely truncate. Elytra broader than the thorax, 

 parallel, narrowly oblong, faintly impressed below the basilar 

 space ; humeral callus thickened ; striae entire, rather less strongly 

 punctured towards the apex. 



The narrow subcylindrical form will distinguish this species from 

 its allies. 



