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vexis, infra basin leviter excavatis ; striis integris, antice 

 fortiter, postice suhtenuiter punctatis ; interspatiis leviter 

 convexiusculis, ad latera subcostatis ; femoribus incrassatis, 

 muticis ; tarsis pic^s. 

 Long. \\ lin. 

 Hab. Malacca. 



Head short, deeply punctured ; anterior border of epistome 

 deeply angulate-emarginate; eyes not prominent ; encarpac slightly 

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

 antennae filiform, nearly equal to the body in length. Thorax 

 twice as broad as long ; sides rounded and moderately converging 

 from base to apex ; upper surface deeply and coarsely punctured, 

 punctures subremote on the disk, crowded on the sides, inter- 

 spaces on the sides elevate-reticulate. Scutellum subpentagonal. 

 Elytra broader than the thorax, broadly oblong-ovate, convex, 

 outer border very narrowly dilated ; slightly excavated below the 

 basilar space ; striae strongly punctured, slightly sulcate, inter- 

 spaces obsoletely convex. 



53. Nodosloma purpureipenne, n. sp. 

 Breviter oblongum, valde convexum, nigrum, nitidum, supra 

 viridi-metallicum ; thorace lateribus rotundatis, a basi ad 

 apicem convergentibus, dorso sat fortiter remote punctato, 

 punctis hie illic irregulariter congregatis ; elytris laete pur- 

 pureis, limbo inflexo viridi-metallico, thorace latioribus, con- 

 vexis, margine laterali paullo dilatato, infra basin leviter sed 

 late excavatis ; striis integris, sat fortiter punctatis, inter- 

 spatiis planis : femoribus incrassatis, muticis. 

 Long. I5 lin. 



Hab. Malacca (Mount Ophir). 



Head short, smooth, impressed very distantly with a few 

 fine but distinct punctures ; epistome much longer than broad, 

 sides nearly parallel, scarcely converging backwards ; anterior 

 border angulate-emarginate, angles of the notch produced, acute; 

 encarpae separated from the front by a shallow groove ; labrum 

 and jaws black ; antennae filiform, black, four lower joints obscure 

 fulvous. Thorax twice as broad as long ; sides rounded, con- 

 verging from the base to the apex, nearly straight and parallel at 

 the base, all the angles thickened ; surface deeply but remotely 

 punctured, the punctures scattered here and there over the whole 

 disk ; just behind the anterior border is a shallow transverse 



