340 CHBTSOMELID^E. 



" Head moderately strongly punctured ; clypeus and labruin 

 fulvous; antennae black, base fulvous. Thorax about twice as 

 broad as long at base, strongly angulated at sides near the base, 

 surface very strongly and densely punctured except near anterior 

 margin. Elytra oblong-ovate, distinctly depressed below the base, 

 the anterior portion moderately strongly, posterior more finely 

 punctate-striate. Femora with a small tooth ; flanks of thorax 

 strongly punctured. 



" Length 4| mm. 



" Hab. Sikhim : Kurseong." (Duvivier.) 



It is very probable that this species is only a variety of 

 N. puncticolle, Lefev., from which, according to the description, 

 ifc does not seem to differ structurally. 



598. Nodostoma fese, Jac. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxxii, 1892, p. 897. 



Piceous ; head fulvous ; antennas partly and the legs flavous. 



Head very remotely and rather strongly punctured ; clypeus 

 not separated from the face, punctured like the bead ; antennae 

 with the apical joints darker, slightly thickened. Thorax half as 

 broad again as long, distinctly angulated at the middle, very deeply 

 and coarsely but not very closely punctured. Elytra wider at base 

 than the thorax, basal portion strongly raised, bounded by a deep 

 depression, the latter deeply punctured, rest of surface impunctate 

 with the exception of a single row of punctures near the suture. 



Var. a. Apex of elytra flavous, other parts piceous. 



Var. 6. Fulvous, elytra paler. 



Length 3 mm. 



Hab. Burma : Karennee. 



The strongly punctured thorax and impunctate posterior portion 

 of the elytra separate this species from others that are similar in 

 coloration. 



Var. a must not be confounded with N. flavolimbatum, Jac., 

 which is similar in coloration, as that species has an impunctate 

 head and the sides of the thorax angulated near the base, not at 

 the middle. 



Elytra dark, apex pale. 



599. Nodostoma nilgiriense, Jac. Ann. Soc. Ent. Self/, xlvii, 1903, 

 p. 96. 



Flavous ; apical joints of antennae black ; elytra black, the apex 

 flavous. 



Head finely and sparingly punctured, with a short but deep 

 depression in front of eyes, indicating the limit of the clypeus at 

 the sides, anterior margin of latter nearly straight ; antennae 

 black, basal four joints flavous, third and fourth equal, terminal 

 joint slender. Thorax more than twice as broad as long, very 

 short, sides subangulate near base, anterior sulcus entire, surface 



