Phyto'phaga Malay ana. 251 



infra basin leviter excavatis, fortiter punctato-striatis, striis 

 pone medium minus fortiter punctatis, interspatiis fere 

 planis ; femoribus modice incrassatis, muticis. 



Long. 1 lin. 



Hab. New Guinea (Dorey). 



Front very finely and remotely punctured, its middle portion 

 impressed with a short longitudinal groove ; epistome coarsely 

 punctured, its anterior border subangulate-emarginate, angles of 

 the notch slightly produced, obtuse; jaws piceous, their apex 

 black; antennae three-fourths the length of the body, filiform, six 

 lower joints pale fulvous, the rest black ; encarpae separated from 

 the front by a distinct groove. Thorax half as broad again as 

 long ; sides rounded, converging in front, nearly straight and 

 parallel behind the middle ; above transversely convex, sides ob- 

 liquely deflexed in front, surface remotely impressed with shallow 

 punctures. Scutellum semiovate. Elytra broader than the tho- 

 rax, faintly excavated below the basilar space ; striae strongly 

 punctured, more finely punctured below the middle, interspaces 

 nearly plane, very faintly convex on the anterior disk and along 

 the suture. 



56. Nodostoma viridiornatum, n. sp. 

 Oblongum, convexum, nigrum, nitidum ; antennis basi piceis ; 

 femoribus extrorsum, scutello thoraceque viridi-eeneis ; hoc 

 lateribus rotundatis, disco remote, lateribus magis crebre punc- 

 tato ; elytris thorace latioribus, breviter oblongis, margine 

 laterali paullo dilatato, infra basin excavatis ; striis integris, 

 tenuiter punctatis, infra humeros profundius punctatis, in- 

 terspatiis planis ; linea suturali, margine laterali plagaque 

 humerali viridi-metallicis; femoribus modice incrassatis, 

 muticis. 

 Var. A. Thorace nigro, basi viridi-metallico. 

 Long. 1^ lin. 

 Hab. Batchian. 



Head slightly prominent, finely but distinctly punctured, inter- 

 spaces on either side the vertex obliquely elevate-strigose ; ante- 

 rior border of epistome angulate-emarginate, the border itself, 

 together with the slightly-raised encarpae, metallic-green ; antennae 

 nearly two-thirds the length of the body, filiform, four lower joints 

 obscure fulvous, stained above with piceous. Thorax half as 

 broad again as long ; sides nearly straight and parallel at the 

 base, rounded and converging from behind the middle to the apex ; 



