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rated from the front by a shallow sutural groove ; antennae two- 

 thirds the length of the body, subfiliform, seven outer joints slightly 

 compressed and thickened, three or four lower joints rufo-piceous; 

 jaws piceous. Thorax twice as broad as long ; sides rounded 

 and converging from base to apex ; hinder angles tuberculate ; 

 disk sparingly impressed with deep punctures, which are irregu- 

 larly scattered over the whole surface; just behind the anterior 

 border is a transverse groove, which extends entirely across the 

 thorax. Scutellum scarcely longer than broad, rufo-piceous. 

 Elytra broader than the thorax, convex, slightly excavated below 

 the basilar space; humeral callus slightly thickened; striae entire, 

 finely punctured ; interspaces plane, distantly impressed with very 

 minute punctures ; lateral border narrowly dilated. 



33. Nodostoma ceneipenne, n. sp. 

 Ovatum, valde convexum, rufo-fulvum, nitidum ; antennis fili- 

 formibus, nigris (basi excepta) ; genibus, tibiis tarsisque 

 nigro-piceis ; thorace transverso, lateribus paullo ante basin 

 abrupte angulatis, hinc ad apicem oblique convergentibus, 

 dorso sat profunde subremote punctato ; elytris seneis, 

 thorace paullo latioribus, convexis, margine laterali paullo 

 dilatato ; infra basin et intra callum humerale excavatis ; 

 striis integris, ante medium (prsesertim ad latera) profunde 

 punctatis, punctis pone medium minus fortiter impressis ; 

 femoribus incrassatis, subtus dente acuto armatis. 

 Long. 2 Hn. 



Hab. Malacca (Mount Ophir). 



Head slightly exserted, short, remotely impressed with large 

 deep punctures ; epistome forming a single piece with the front, 

 its anterior border deeply angulate-emarginate ; encarpse slightly 

 thickened, not distinctly separated from the front ; jaws black, 

 their middle portion rufo-piceous ; antennae filiform, rather more 

 •than half the length of the body, four lower joints obscure ful- 

 vous, third joint nearly twice the length of the second. Thorax 

 at the base more than twice as broad as long ; sides with the 

 lateral border very narrowly dilated, abruptly angled just in front 

 of the base, thence obliquely converging to the apex ; anterior 

 and posterior angles tuberculate ; surface subremotely impressed 

 with large deep punctures, which are irregularly scattered over the 

 disk ; just behind the anterior border is a deep transverse groove, 

 the surface of which is impressed with a single row of transversely 



