240 Phytophaga Malayana. 



rounded, converging from behind the middle to tlie apex ; anterior 

 angles acute, posterior angles armed with an obtuse tooth ; surface 

 covered with large deep punctures, interspaces on the sides ele- 

 vate-reticulate. Scutellum longer than broad, semiovate, sides 

 converging from before backwards. El^'tra similar in form and 

 sculpturing to TV. viridiceneum. 



Very nearly allied to N. viridi(sneum, and possibly a variety of 

 that species; sides of thorax more regularly rounded, disk less 

 closely covered with raised reticulations. 



40. Nodostoma strigicolle, n. sp. 



Oblongo-ovatum, convexum, nigrum, nitidum ; antennis fili- 

 formibus, basi fulvis ; thorace elevato-strigoso-reticulato, 

 interspatiis profunde punctatis, lateribus rotundatis, a basi 

 ad apicem convergentibus ; elytris late oblongis, convexis, 

 infra basin et intra callum humerale excavatis ; striis ante 

 medium sulcatis, sat fortiter punctatis, interspatiis convexis, 

 pone medium tenuiter punctatis, interspatiis fere planis ; fe- 

 moribus incrassatis, muticis. 



Long. 2 lin. 



Hab. Celebes. 



Head coarsely rugose-punctate ; anterior border of epistome 

 angulate-emarginate, angles of the notch subacute ; jaws promi- 

 nent; antennae more than half the length of the body, filiform, 

 three basal joints obscure fidvous, basal joints stained above with 

 piceous. I'horax twice as broad as long ; sides rounded and 

 converging from base to apex, middle third very slightly sinuate ; 

 all the angles armed with an obtuse tooth ; surface closely covered 

 with coarse raised reticulations, the interspaces deeply punctured ; 

 just behind the anterior border is a transverse sulcation, extend- 

 ing over the entire surface. Scutellum longer than broad, pen- 

 tagonal, sides parallel. Elytra broader than the thorax, lateral 

 border very slightly dilated, convex, excavated below the basilar 

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

 entire, sulcate and strongly punctured on the anterior disk, finely 

 punctured and very obsoletely sulcate behind the middle ; inter- 

 spaces convex in front, nearly plane posteriorly. 



41. Nodostoma foveicolle, Baly. 

 {N.foveicollis), Desc. New Gen. and Spec. Phyt. p. 12. 



Oblongum, convexum, nigrum, nitidum ; antennis filiformibus, 

 basi obscure fulvis ; thorace crebre foveolato-punctato, in- 



