308 CHEYSOMELID.*. 



529. Nodostoma fabrei, Lefev. Bull. Soc. Ent. France, 1887, p. clxxv. 



Obscure cjaneous, subelongate-ovate. Head strongly punc- 

 tured ; clypeus continuous with face, apex ernargmate ; labrum, 

 palpi and autennae fulvo-testaceous, the last extending to half the 

 length of the body, terminal five joints fuscous. Thorax subcylin- 

 drical, sides evenly rounded, surface strongly and reraotely 

 punctured. Scutellum triangular, smooth. Elytra strongly 

 impressed below shoulders, strongly punctate-striate, punctures 

 absent near apex. Legs elongate, brownish-testaceous or piceous ; 

 femora with minute tooth. 



Length 55;? mm. 



Hab. India : Kamuad ; Darjeeling ; Mungphu ; Burma : Euby 

 Mines. 



Specimens from the last-named localities agree so closely with 

 Lefevre's description of this species that I must refer them to it ; 

 the only difference is in the colour of the antennae, which in my 

 specimens are black with the basal three joints testaceous. The 

 general colour of the forms also varies from dark blue to greenish- 



530. Nodostoma semicseruleum, Jac. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxxii, 

 1892, p. 897. 



Black beneath ; metallic dark blue above ; basal joints of 

 antennae fulvous. 



Head finely and remotely punctured ; labrum fulvous ; antennae 

 black, slender, basal four joints fulvous, third and fourth joints 

 scarcely longer than the second but more slender, following joints 

 shorter and thicker. Thorax at least twice as broad as long, 

 sides strongly deflexed, lateral margins subangulately rouuded at 

 the middle ; disc deeply and very closely punctured, especially at 

 the sides, punctures round. Elytra scarcely wider at base than 

 the thorax, depressed below the base, deeply punctate-striate ; inter- 

 stices longitudinally costate at sides, punctures very regular on 

 the disc. 



Lenrjtli 3 mm. 



Hob. Burma. 



531. Nodostoma dubiosum. S p. n. 



Beneath black ; above metallic dark blue ; basal joints of 

 antennae partly flavous. 



$ . Head remotely punctured on vertex ; clypeus more closely 

 punctate, anterior edge nearly straight ; labrum piceous : antenna? 

 black, basal two joints flavous beneath, third distinctly shorter 

 than the fourth. Thorax half as broad again as long, scarcely 

 narrowed in front, sides rounded, surface strongly and closelv 

 punctured. Elytra oblong, wider at base than the thorax, with 



