242 Phytophaga Malayana. 



ano-ulate-emarginate, angles of the notch moderately produced, 

 obtuse, stained with pale piceous ; labrutn broad fulvous ; jaws 

 nio-ro-piceous ; antennae nearly equal to the body in length, fili- 

 form, pale fulvous. Thorax twice as broad as long ; sides rounded, 

 converging from just before the base to the apex, all the angles 

 tuberculate ; surface impressed with large deep punctures; just 

 behind the anterior border is a transverse groove. Scutellum 

 trigonate, its apex obtuse. Elytra broader than the thorax, sub- 

 quadrate-oblong, convex, lateral border narrowly dilated ; exca- 

 vated below the basilar space and within the humeral callus, the 

 latter thickened, impressed below its middle with a transverse 

 groove ; from the lower extremity of the callus a distinct costa 

 runs parallel to the outer border, and is gradually lost below the 

 middle of the elytron ; striae strongly punctured, sulcate for the 

 anterior two-thirds of their course, rather more finely punctured 

 towards the apex ; interspaces slightly convex, plane posteriorly- 

 Front pair of thighs stained on their apical half with piceous. 



43. Nodostoma pnlchellum, n. sp. 

 Oblongum, convexum, viridi-seneum, nitidum, subtus (pectore 

 excepto) nigrum ; pedibus obscure caeruleo-aeneis, viridi- 

 tinctis ; thorace lateribus rotundatis, pone medium angulatis, 

 profunde punctato, interspatiis ad latera et in disci medio ele- 

 vato-reticulatis ; elytris thorace latioribus, subquadrato-ob- 

 longis, raargine lateral! paullo dilatato, infra basin et intra 

 callum humerale excavatis, fortiter punctato-striatis, inter- 

 spatiis leviter convexiusculis, striis ad latera profunde 

 punctatis, interspatiis fere costatis ; femoribus incrassalis, 

 muticis. 

 Long. 1 lin. 



Hab. New Guinea, Waigiou. 



Head coarsely punctured, clothed with whitish adpressed hairs ; 

 anterior border ofepistome subangulate-emarginate ; labrum me- 

 tallic-green ; jaws black ; antennae black, basal half obscure ful- 

 vous, basal joint stained above with rnetallic-green. Thorax 

 twice as broad as long ; sides rounded, distinctly angled behind 

 the middle, coarsely and deeply punctured, interspaces on the 

 sides and middle disk elevate-reticulate ; just behind the anterior 

 border is a shallow transverse groove. Scutellum longer than 

 broad, siibpentagonal. Elytra much broader than the thorax, 

 subquadrate-oblong, lateral border distinctly dilated ; convex, ex- 



