310 CIIRYSOMELID^:. 



the sides below the base, strongly punctate-striate ; interstices very 

 strongly costate, especially so at the sides, latter broadly black ; 

 sutural and apical portions fulvous. Femora with a minute tooth. 



Var. a. Entirely fulvous. 



Var. 6. Black, basal joints of antennae fulvous. 



Length 4 mm. 



Hab, Nilgiris. 



The coloration in typical specimens and the strongly costate 

 interstices at sides of the elytra distinguish this species from 

 others closely allied to it. 



534. Nodostoma geniculatum, Lefev. Bull. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxv, 

 1891, p. cclxv. 



" Body beneath, head, thorax and scutellum dark piceous ; basal 

 five joints of antennae testaceous, rest fuscous ; elytra pale fulvous r 

 sutural and lateral margins, a small spot below base and the apex 

 of the femora, the base and apex of the tibiae and the tarsi, 

 fuscous. 



" Head strongly punctured, depressed and rugose between the 

 eyes ; labrum and palpi fulvous ; antennae scarcely so long as half 

 the body, filiform. Thorax transverse, strongly punctate-sulcate 

 near anterior margin, sides arcuate with reflexed narrow margins, 

 strongly widened before the middle, closely and very finely punc- 

 tured, punctures aciculate. Scutellum smooth. Elytra trans- 

 versely foveolately impressed below the base, with a small piceous 

 spot within the depression, regularly punctate-striate, punctures 

 much finer towards apex, interstices at sides (particularly near 

 shoulders) subcostate. Legs elongate; femora with a minute tooth. 



" Length 5 mm. 



" Hab. India orient." (Lefevre). Bengal : Mandar ; Trich- 

 inopoly. 



There are some specimens from the last-named localities before 

 me which I refer to this species : one, apparently a male, is of 

 more elongate and narrow shape, with the head testaceous at base, 

 piceous in front, strongly but partially subrugosely punctured ; 

 everything agrees with Lefevre's description, but it was clearly a 

 slip of the pen on his part to say " the sides of the thorax are 

 widened before middle," it ought to be " behind the middle " as is 

 the case with all other species. 



535. Nodostoma longicorne, Jac. P. Z. S. 1887, p. 79. 



Fulvous : legs testaceous, knees piceous ; elytra with the lateral 

 margins anteriorly black. 



c? . Head finely and rather remotely punctured ; clypeus 

 separated from the face by a few deep punctures ; palpi testaceous ; 

 antenna fulvous, as long as the body, apical joints darker, fourth 

 \oint *ather longer than the third. Thorax transverse, strongly 



