NODINA. 295 



o04. Nodina pusilla, Motsch. Etud. Ent, 1858, p. 103. 



" Greenish-aeneous, beneatli black ; mouth-parts, antennae, and 

 legs rufous ; palpi robust, last joint elongate-ovate ; antennae half 

 the length of body, apical joints strongly thickened, first joint 

 incrassate, elongate, second scarcely half the length of first, ovate, 

 third smaller than second, fourth subtriangular, following joints 

 dilated, the last ovate. Thorax transverse, sparsely punctured, 

 narrowed anteriorly, posteriorly marginate, median lobe produced 

 in front of scutellutn, posterior angles subacute, prominent. 

 Scutellutn subrotundate, impunctate, apex acuminate. Elytra 

 punctate-striate, punctures obliterated posteriorly, interstices 

 impunctate. Body beneath sparingly pubescent ; legs robust, 

 margination of the tibiae pubescent. 



" Length 1^ mm. 



"#o&. India." (Motscliulsky.) 



As Motschulsky describes his species as having the elytral 

 puncturation obliterated posteriorly, it cannot be identified with 

 N. parvuldi Jac., which latter is also larger. The puncturation of 

 the thorax is only given as sparse, but not whether the punctures 

 are deep or shallow. 



b. Tarsi fulvous, leys dark. 



505. Nodina burmanica, Jac. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxxii, 1902, 



p. 904. 



Obscure aeneous ; antennae, apex of tibiae and the tarsi 

 fulvous. 



Ovate, scarcely narrowed posteriorly. Head remotely but dis- 

 tinctly punctured ; labrum fulvous ; antennae robust, terminal 

 joints slightly darker, transversely thickened. Thorax with sides 

 very feebly rounded ; surface evenly, rather strongly but remotely 

 punctured. Elytra slightly darker than the thorax, punctate- 

 striate, punctures scarcely stronger than those on the thorax. 



Length 2 mm. 



Hab. Burma ; Karennee. Type in Genoa Museum. 



Intermediate in size between N. parvula, Jac., and N. robusta, 

 Jac., principally distinguished by the colour o the tibiae and 

 tarsi. 



506. Nodina subcostata, sp. n. 



Beneath black, above metallic dark blue ; basal joints of antennae 

 fulvous ; tarsi obscure piceous or dark fulvous. 



$ . Head very finely and sparingly punctured ; clypeus rather 

 more strongly punctate, anterior edge deeply einarginate at 

 middle ; basal three or four joints of antennae fulvous, rest black, 

 strongly thickened, basal joint black above. Thorax twice as 

 broad as long, sides strongly rounded ; surface convex, strongly 



