228 Phytophaga Malayana. 



excavatis, hoc elevato ; spatio basilar! paullo incrassato, fere 

 impunctato; striis pone basin sat fortiter piinctatis, punctis 

 pone medium indistinctis, apicem versus fere obsoletis ; 

 utrisque plaga magna basali, spatium basilare amplectente, 

 fulva ornatis ; femoribus subtus dente brevi armatis. 

 Long. 1 lin. 

 Hab. Borneo. 



Head deeply and irregularly punctured ; epistome forming a 

 single piece with the front ; eyes prominent, their inner edge 

 sinuate. Thorax scarcely broader than long ; sides slightly but 

 distinctly angled behind the middle, in front obliquely con- 

 verging and slightly rounded to the apex ; above convex, sides 

 obliquely deflexed in front, coarsely punctured, more finely and 

 less closely punctured on the disk. Elytra rather broader 

 than the thorax, broadly oblong, excavated below the basilar 

 space and within the humeral callus, the latter prominent; striae 

 distinctly punctured in front, very finely punctured and nearly 

 obsolete behind the middle ; basilar space slightly thickened, 

 nearly impunctate, its surface covered with a large fulvous patch. 



24. Nodostoma fulvijyes, n. sp. 

 Subelongatum, convexum, obscure piceum, nitidum ; antennis 

 pedibusque fulvis ; thorace sat profunde remote punctato, 

 lateribus pone medium angulatis ; elytris thorace latioribus, 

 oblongis, infra basin excavatis, intra callum humerale sulcatis, 

 hoc incrassato, postice in costam obliquam producto ; striis 

 pone medium fere obsoletis, ante medium punctis magnis 

 fortiter impressis ; spatio basilari paullo elevato, minus for- 

 titer punctato ; femoribus muticis, dente minuto armatis. 

 Long. 1 lin. 



Hab. Northern part of New Guinea; Sulu Islands. 

 Head slightly exserted, strongly punctured ; middle of the front 

 impressed with a faint longitudinal groove ; epistome wedge- 

 shaped, not separated at its apex from the front, its anterior 

 border concave-emarginate, the border itself narrowly reflexed ; 

 encarpse separated from the front by a deep groove ; eyes pro- 

 minent, nearly entire. Thorax more than half as broad again 

 as long; sides obtusely angled behind the middle, thence to 

 the apex obliquely narrowed and slightly rounded ; upper sur- 

 face strongly and remotely punctured on the disk, more closely 

 and still more strongly punctured on the sides. Scutellum longer 



