302 CHRYSOMELID-E. 



Species entirely metallic. 

 Sides of tliorax ungulate. 



517. Nodostoma denticolle, Jac. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxxii, 1892, 



p. 900. 



Metallic green or cupreous, antennae dark fulvous. 



Head extremely closely and rather finely rugose-punctate, with- 

 out grooves ; labrura fulvous, with a black spot or entirely black ; 

 palpi fulvous ; antennae slender and filiform. Thorax twice as 

 broad as long, rather convex ; sides very acutely dentate behind 

 the middle, strongly obliquely narrowed in front; surface very 

 closely and finely punctured throughout, anterior sulcus deep. 

 Scutellum very minutely punctured. Elytra with deep transverse 

 depression below base, the latter raised; shoulders very promi- 

 nent ; surface finely punctate-striate, the strife distantly placed 

 near suture, stronger and more closely approximate at sides; 

 punctures very fine behind the middle. Femora with a small tooth. 



Length 6 mm. 



Hob. Bengal : Mandar ; Burma : Pegu District. 



518. Nodostoma nobilitatum, Jac. Ann. Soc. Ent. Bek. xxxix, 1895. 



p. 279. 



<$ . Black or piceous beneath ; above metallic green or cupreous ; 

 basal joints of antennae fulvous. 



Fig. 116. Nodost&ma nobilitatum. 



Head closely and strongly punctured throughout ; labrum 

 fulvous ; antennae black, extending to middle of elytra, basal 



