226 Phytopliaga Malayana. 



rail, plagfi humerali fascidqne lata pone medium, marginem 

 lateralem attingente, disco interiori abbreviata, nigro-piceis ; 

 femoribus muticis. 

 Long. \^ lin. 



Hab. Aru Islands, New Guinea. 



Head coarsely but not closely punctured ; epistome not sepa- 

 rated from the front. Thorax more than twice as broad as long ; 

 sides rounded, obsoletely angled behind the middle, obliquely 

 converging thence to the apex, hinder angles tuberculate ; sur- 

 face coarsely and deeply punctured on the sides, more finely 

 punctured on the disk ; lateral border nigro-piceous ; basal mar- 

 gin broadly stained in the middle with piceous. Scutellum tri- 

 gonate, its apex obtuse. Elytra oblong-ovate, excavated below 

 the basilar space ; striae strongly punctured, entire, sulcate, inter- 

 spaces slightly convex ; humeral callus thickened, its lower end 

 lost in an elevated costa, which runs downwards nearly to the apex 

 of the elytron. 



21. Nodostoma armatum, n. sp. 

 Anguste oblongum, convexum, pallide fulvo-piceum, nitidum, 

 antennis (basi fulva. excepta) elytrorumque sutur4 et limbo 

 inflexo nigris; thorace fortiter subremote punctato, lateribus 

 pone medium angulatis; elytris fulvis, infrabasin non excavatis, 

 sat fortiter punctato-striatis ; striis ante medium leviter sul- 

 catis, interspatiis convexiusculis ; striis pone medium tenuiter 

 punctatis, interspatiis planis ; pedibus fulvis, non elongatis, 

 femoribus subtus dente brevi armatis. 

 Long. 2 lin. 

 Hab. Borneo. 



Head scarcely exserted ; front forming a single piece with the 

 epistome, the anterior border of the latter concave-emarginate ; 

 surface of face impunctate, with the exception of a patch of deep 

 punctures placed on either side close to the middle of the eye ; on 

 the middle of the front is a short longitudinal fovea; eyes prominent, 

 their inner border sinuate; jaws piceous, their apex black; an- 

 tennae filiform, robust, black, three basal joints fulvous. Thorax 

 twice as broad as long; sides angled behind the middle, the angle 

 itself acute; anterior and posterior angles each armed with an 

 obtuse tooth ; upper surface coarsely and deeply but not very 

 closely punctured. Scutellum oblong, its apex obtuse. Elytra 

 parallel, not excavated below the base ; striae distinctly punc- 

 tured, subsulcate, the interspaces convex ; behind the middle the 



