NODOSTOMA. 



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punctate-striate throughout, interstices minutely and sparingly 

 punctured. 



Length 3 mm. 



Hab. Assam : Patkai Mts. (Colls, Brit. Mm. $ Jacoby). 



Separated by the colour of the antenna in connection with the 

 rounded sides of thorax, the feeble elytral depression and the 

 regular rows of punctures over their entire surface, also by the 

 finely punctured elytral interstices. 



Above testaceous. Sides of thorax angulate. 

 565. Nodostoma thoracicum, sp. n. 



Entirely testaceous. Head with a few widely distributed punc- 

 tures ; clypeus similarly sculptured, its sides cariniform, anterior 

 margin deeply setuicircularly ernarginate ; antennae long and 

 slender, testaceous, apical joint f\iscous, third and fourth joints very 



Fig. 118. Nodostoma tJioracicum. 



elongate, equal. Thorax half as broad again as long, sides angu- 

 larly rounded near base, anterior sulcus distinct at the sides only; 

 surface very deeply but not very closely punctured, the punctures 

 round. Elytra elongate, pale testaceous, with deep basal depres- 

 sion, the latter with a few punctures, another short row of 

 punctures within the shoulders that extends to base, rest of 

 surface impunctate. Anterior femora strongly thickened and with 

 a minute tooth. 



Length 3| mm. 



Hab. Southern India : Nilgiris ; Southern Bombay : Belgaum 

 (Colls. If. E. Andrewes 4' Jacoby). 



Separated by the exceptionally strongly punctured thorax and 

 the nearly impunctate elytra. 



