230 Phytophaga Malayana. 



latter elevated into an oblique ridge; just below the callus is a 

 transverse curved ridge, concave upwards, thickened at its 

 inner end, but gradually diminishing in thickness as it approaches 

 the outer border ; a short distance below is a stout obtuse tuber- 

 cle, still lower is a longitudinal ridge, which runs parallel to the 

 lateral border of the thorax, and becomes gradually lost below the 

 middle of the elytron ; striae slightly sulcate, entire, distinctly 

 punctured, the punctures placed somewhat irregularly ; inter- 

 spaces very remotely and distantly punctured, obsoletely con- 

 vex ; basilar space slightly thickened, nearly as strongly punctured 

 as the rest of the anterior disk, interspace on its outer margin 

 raised, costate. 



26. Nodostoma lateripunctatum, n. sp. 

 Subelongatum, convexum, viridi-metallicura, nitidum ; antennis 

 nio-ris; thorace lateribus rotundatis, foveolatis, disci medio 

 subremote punctato ; elytris thorace latioribus, oblongis, 

 parallelis, infra basin late excavatis ; striis integris, ante 

 medium sat fortiter, pone medium tenuiter punctatis, inter- 

 spatiis planis ; femoribus subtus dente minuto armatis. 

 Long. 1| lin. 

 Hab. Singapore. 



Head moderately exserted, very remotely punctured ; epistome 

 forminc a single piece with the front, its anterior border concave- 

 emarginate, angles of the notch produced, acute ; encarpae sepa- 

 rated from the front by a deep groove ; front itself impressed in 

 the middle with a short longitudinal groove ; antennae slender, 

 filiform, nearly equal to the body in length ; labrum fulvous. 

 Thorax two-thirds as broad again as long ; sides obtusely rounded, 

 very indistinctly angled behind the middle ; hinder angles tuber- 

 culate, anterior unarmed ; upper surface transversely convex, 

 almost subcylindrical, impressed just behind the anterior border 

 with a distinct transverse groove ; a narrow space in the middle 

 subremotely impressed with small but deep punctures ; sides 

 closely covered with large round deeply excavated punctures. 

 Scutellum longer than broad, semiovate. Elytra broader than 

 the thorax, oblong, excavated below the basilar space ; striae 

 deeply and strongly punctured before the middle, very finely 

 punctured towards the apex ; interspaces plane. Thighs mode- 

 rately thickened, armed beneath with a very minute tooth. 



