334 CHRYSOMELID7E. 



c? . Head finely and remotely punctured ; clypeus not separated 

 from the face, with some widely placed strong punctures : 

 antennae nearly extending to apex of elytra, basal four joints and 

 base of fifth flavous, rest black, third distinctly shorter than 

 fourth, terminal joints very elongate and slender. Thorax at 

 base twice as broad as long, sides strongly angulated near base, 

 anterior sulcus deep and entire ; surface convex, very finely and 

 remotely punctured. Scutellum piceous or fulvous. Elytra 

 broadly ovate, with a short not very deep depression below base, 

 rather finely and closely punetate-striate, tne depression some- 

 what more strongly and irregularly punctured. Femora with a 

 small tooth. 



Var. Head, thorax, underside and legs flavous or the whole 

 insect flavous. 



Length 4-5 mm. 



Hob. Sikhim : Kurseong ; Bengal : Mandar. 



Very variable in colour, some specimens have the upper portion 

 of the head flavous and the lower piceous or entirely of either 

 colour. The species differs from N.fulvipes, Mots., and its varieties 

 in the remote puncturation of the head and thorax, although in 

 the female it is rather more close. The colour of the elytra and 

 of the underside separates this from the preceding species. 



584. Nodostoma subcostatum, Jac. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxvii, 

 1889, p. 164. 



Fulvous or piceous; head, thorax and legs rufous; elytra 

 metallic green or blue. 



Head strongly but remotely punctured, puncturation stronger 

 on the clypeus, anterior edge of latter deeply emarginate ; 

 antennae filiform, flavous, terminal joints stained with fuscous, 

 third and fourth verv elongate, equal. Thorax rather more than 

 twice as broad as long, strongly narrowed anteriorly, sides 

 distinctly angulated near base ; anterior sulcus entire, deep and 

 strongly punctured ; surface strongly and closely punctured at the 

 sides, more remotely so on the disc. Scutellum fulvous. Elytra 

 rather broadly oblong, basal portion raised, with a depression 

 below ; surface strongly punctate-striate, the punctures distinct but 

 rather finer near apex ; shoulders costiform, a ridge below them 

 running parallel with the lateral margins to about the middle ; 

 interstices somewhat raised, more distinctly so at sides. Femora 

 with a very small tooth. 



Var. . Head fulvous, thorax and elytra blue. 



Var. Z>. Entirely fulvous. 



Length 3 mm. 



Hab. Assam ; Burma : Tharawaddy, Teinso, Bhamo. 



No other species of this section is known to me in which the 

 elytral lateral costa is continued to or behind the middle ; this 

 seems the same in both sexes but to a greater extent in the 

 female. 



