NODOSTOMA. 301 



Head nearly impunctate, flat ; eyes notched ; clypeus separated 

 from face by a transverse depression, cupreous like the rest of 

 the head ; labrum and palpi piceous ; an- 

 tennae more than half the length of the 

 body, basal five joints fulvous, rest black, 

 second joint extremely small, third and 

 fourth elongate, equal, terminal joints 

 slightly curved, inserted at the extreme 

 base of the preceding joint. Thorax twice 

 as broad as long, slightly widened at middle, 

 . . sides narrowed in front, narrowly margined ; 



Autolamprafemorata. surface strongly and remotely punctured, 

 more closely so at sides. Scutellum metallic 



green. Elytra very strongly punctate-striate, the punctures 

 arranged in close rather regular rows ; interstices somewhat 

 rugose and costate near apex. Femora metallic green, posterior 

 femora with some long stiff bristles, their apices with a deep 

 excavation ; lower edge with a long blunt appendage ending in a 

 small point piceous in colour with a bluish gloss. 

 Length 6 mm. 

 Jfab. Burma : Karennee. Type in the Genoa Museum. 



Genus NODOSTOMA. 



Nodostoiua, Motsch. Reise Amur, ii, 1860, p. 176. 

 Basilepta (part.), Baly, Journ. Ent. i, 1860, p. 23 ; Chapuis, Gen. 

 Co-opt, x, 1874, p. 261 ; Lefeo. Cat. Eumolp. 1885, p. 57. 



Type, N. fulvipes, Motsch., from China. 



Range. Most parts of India, Malay Archipelago ; Tropical Asia. 



Body ovate or oblong ; antennae filiform, apical joints sometimes 

 slightly thickened. Thorax generally transverse, narrowed in 

 front, rarely subcylindrical, more or less angulate at the sides 

 near base, with narrow sulcus near the anterior margin. Elytra 

 generally wider at base than the thorax, and more or less deeply 

 depressed below base, punctate-striate, sometimes metallic, gene- 

 rally flavous or fulvous. Prosternum broad, subquadrate, base 

 truncate. Legs rather long ; femora incrassate, frequently with a 

 small tooth ; intermediate and posterior tibiae emarginate at apex, 

 claws appendiculate. 



The species of this genus are very numerous, closely allied and 

 often difficult to distinguish. They vary also frequently in the 

 shape of the thorax and prosternum, but this is so much a matter 

 of degree that it does not allow of subgeneric separation. As a 

 rule, the species of Nodostoma may be known by the transverse, 

 anteriorly strongly narrowed thorax and its more or less distinctly 

 angulated sides ; there is also a narrow sulcus close to the anterior 

 margin, more or less strongly marked, but always distinct at the 

 sides. 



