328 CIIRYSOMELID.E. 



base itself with a few remotely placed punctures arranged in rows 

 which extend more or less distinctly as far as the middle, behind 

 the middle the punctures are more or less obsolete. Femora with 

 minute tooth. 



Length 2 mm. 



Hab. Ceylon: Galle. 



The nearly impunctate vertex, the strongly punctured clypeus 

 and sides of thorax, joined to its small size and absence of an 

 anterior thoracic sulcus, clearly distinguish this species. 



571. Nodostoma montanum, sp. n. 



J . Testaceous. Head entirely impunctate ; sides with oblique 

 groove at base of the antennae ; clypeus not separated from face but 

 with a small fovea on each side; antennae testaceous, third joint 

 shorter than the fourth, terminal joints slightly thickened. Thorax 

 twice as broad as long, sides angulate near base, moderately oblique 

 towards apex, no anterior sulcus ; surface with a few strong punc- 

 tures on the sides only, disc with a few fine punctures. Elytra oblong, 

 narrowed at apex, with very feeble depression at base, shoulders 

 only slightly prominent ; surface very regularly and somewhat 

 finely puuctate-striate, apex very obsoletely punctured. Legs 

 unarmed. $ . Similar but with much shorter antennae, a more trans- 

 verse thorax and a short feeble elytral costa below shoulders. 



LengtJi 2 mm. 



Hab. Burma : Karen Hills. Type in Brit. Mus. 



Nearly allied to N. clypeatum, Jac., from Ceylon ; but the 

 clypeus impunctate, the antennae entirely testaceous, elytral 

 depression nearly absent. 



572. Nodostoma weisei, Jac. M6m. Soc. Ent. Belg. vii, 1900, p. 105. 



Testaceous. Head and the clypeus also very sparingly punc- 

 tured ; antennae long and filiform, third joint longer than second and 

 more slender. Thorax rather more than twice as broad as long, 

 ides angulate near base; surface finely and closely punctured, 

 anterior sulcus entire, punctures at sides of thorax slightly larger 

 than those on the middle but not more closely placed. Elytra 

 oblong-ovate, with deep basal depression, strongly punctured 

 anteriorly, much more finely so behind the middle, a short oblique 

 costa at the shoulders. 



Length 2-2 ^ mm. 



Hab. Bengal : Barway, Mandar. Southern India : Nilgiris, 

 Anaimalais. 



Principally distinguished from most of the similarly coloured 

 species by the sparingly punctured head, short and very strong! v 

 transverse thorax and its fine and rather close puncturation, the 

 very long antennae, &c. 



