236 Phytophaga Malay ana. 



oblong punctures. Scutellum longer than broad, subpentagonal. 

 Elytra slightly broader than the thorax, tb.eir lateral margin nar- 

 rowly dilated, convex, excavated below the basilar space and 

 within the humeral callus, the latter thickened ; striae entire, 

 deeply and strongly punctured on the anterior disk, more espe- 

 cially towards the outer border ; behind the middle and on the 

 basilar space the punctures are smaller and less deeply impressed. 



34. Nodostomu viride, n. sp. 



Breviter ovatum, valde convexum, viridi-metallicum, nitidum, 

 supra seneo-micans, antennis nigris, abdomine caeruleo- 

 aeneo ; thorace subremote fortiter punctato, punctis hie illic 

 irregulariter congregatis, lateribus rotundatis ; elytris thorace 

 paullo latioribus, limbo exteriori paullo dilatato, infra basin 

 et intra callum humerale excavatis, sat fortiter punctato- 

 striatis, striis integris, pone medium minus fortiter punc- 

 tatis, interspatiis obsolete convexiusculis ; femoribus mu- 

 ticis. 



Long. 2 lin. 



Hab. Sumatra. 



Head distantly punctured ; epistome longer than broad, form- 

 ing a single piece at its apex with the front, sides nearly straight 

 and parallel, anterior border deeply angulate-emarginate, angles 

 of the notch produced, acute ; labrum metallic-green ; encarpae not 

 distinctly separated from the front; middle of the front impressed 

 with an oblong fovea ; antennas half the length of the body, mo- 

 derately robust, black, four basal joints glabrous, nitidous, the 

 rest opake, clothed with adpressed hair's. Thorax twice as broad 

 as long; sides rounded, very indistinctly angled behind the middle, 

 anterior and posterior angles tuberculate ; surface impressed with 

 deep punctures, which are irregularly congregated in patches over 

 the surface. Scutellum as broad at the base as long, subpenta- 

 gonal, its apex impressed with a small fovea. Elytra slightly 

 broader than the thorax, subquadrate-ovate, their outer limb nar- 

 rowly dilated ; above convex, excavated below the basilar space 

 and within the humeral callus, the latter thickened, the basilar 

 space also slightly raised ; striae entire, strongly punctured, the 

 puncturing rather less strongly impressed below the middle and 

 on the basilar space ; interspaces obsoletely convex. Thighs in- 

 crassate. 



