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543. Nodostoma plagiosum, Buly, Cist. Eat. ii, 1880, p. 373. 



" Piceous ; antennae and legs piceo-fulvous ; elytra obscure 

 fulvous, the sutural and lateral margins very narrowly and an 

 irregular transverse patch from below the base to the middle or 

 beyond it, piceous. 



" Oblong ; vertex and front subremotely punctured ; clypeus 

 strongly and closely punctured, anterior 

 border deeply excavate - emarginate, the 

 emargination produced at sides into a tooth; 

 antennae slender, second and third joints 

 nearly equal in length, fourth very slightly 

 longer than the third. Thorax nearly twice 

 as broad as long, sides diverging at the base, 

 obtusely angulate behind the middle, thence 

 obliquely convergent and very slightly roun- 

 ded to apex ; disc transversely convex, very 

 coarsely and deeply punctured. Elytra con- 

 vex, strongly punctate-striate, the punctures 

 nearly obsolete near apex ; interstices plain, 

 impunctate ; the piceous patch covers the 

 outer disc (shoulders excepted)/' (Bali/.) 

 Fig. 118. Length 3 mm. 



Xodostuma plagiosum. Hal). " Kashgar " (Bali/.) India : Murree ; 



Assam : Khasi Hills. 



A -well- marked species, with the elytral patch of variable length; 

 the antennae have the basal joints more or less flavous, and in the 

 specimens from the Khasi Hills before me the legs are entirely 

 of that colour. The thorax in the male is only half as broad again 

 as long ; in both sexes the extreme anterior margin is flavous, 

 rest of the disc piceous and very strongly punctured. 



544. Nodostoma nigrocinctiim, sp. n. 



Testaceous ; head and thorax obscure fulvous ; elytra with 

 sutural and lateral margins narrowly and a spot below base, 

 black. 



Head very strongly and subremotely punctured throughout ; 

 clypeus not separated from the face, feebly semicircularly emarginate 

 at the middle of the anterior border ; antennae slender, flavous, third 

 joint only a little longer than the second and scarcely more than 

 half the length of the fourth. Thorax very short, rather more 

 than twice as broad as long, sides angulate near base ; surface 

 strongly and very closely punctured, more so at the sides than in 

 the middle ; anterior sulcus narrow and entire. Scutellum with 

 some extremely fine punctures. Elytra oblong, a round black 

 i'ovea below the base : surface strongly punctate-striate anteriorly, 

 finely so behind the middle, the black colour of the margins not 

 extending to apex. Legs testaceous. 



Length 3 mm. 



