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rather finely but not closely punctured. Scutellum flavous. 

 Elytra with deep but short depression below base, shoulders 

 prominent, followed by a short costa, surface strongly punctate- 

 striate anteriorly. Femora with a minute tooth. 



Var. . Body beneath black. 



Var. b. Above and beneath entirely flavous. 



Length 3 mm. 



Ifab. Southern India : Nilgiris. 



A small species which has also been obtained by Mr. H. L. 

 Andrewes lately ; in some of these specimens the head is entirely 

 impunctate. The angle at the sides of the thorax is placed close 

 to the base, and the flavous apex of the elytra appears like a 

 narrow band extending upwards a little way along the lateral 

 margins. I have but little doubt that the entirely unicolorous 

 pale specimens represent the same species, since there are abso- 

 lutely no structural differences. The species is characterized by 

 the nearly or entirely impunctate head and very finely but not 

 very closely punctured and short thorax. 



600. Nodostoma flavolimbatum, sp. n. 



Fulvous ; elytra black, extreme apex fulvous ; sides of breast black. 



Oblong, convex, subcylindrical. Head impunctate ; clypeus 

 with a few punctures at base, sides with a fovea indicating 

 separation from face ; antennae slender, fulvous, terminal joints 

 scarcely thicker than the basal. Thorax more than twice as 

 broad as long, sides angulated near base ; anterior sulcus deep at 

 sides, obsolete in the middle, the sulcus with a few fine punctures; 

 disc impuuctate or with a few punctures, widely scattered. Scu- 

 tellum black. Elytra with distinct basal depression, strongly 

 punctate-striate anteriorly, posterior portion nearly impunctate, a 

 single row of punctures near suture distinct to apex. Breast 

 black ; legs fulvous ; femora unarmed. 



Lenytli 2 1 mm. 



Hab. Southern India : JS"ilgiris ; Burma : Euby Mines. Type 

 in Brit. Mus. 



The small size and black elytra with the apical margins narrowly 

 fulvous, separate this species from its allies. The specimens 

 from the Nilgiris only differ in having the legs more or less 

 stained with piceous and some slight variations in puncturation. 



001. Nodostoma terminatum, sp. n. 



Oblong ; nearly black ; basal joints of autennsse and femora 

 more or less fulvous ; apex of elytra flavous. 



Head sparingly and very remotely punctured ; antennae black, 

 basal three joints obscure fulvous beneath, third joint but little 

 longer than second, following joints of similar length. Thorax 

 half as broad again as long, sides strongly angulated directly 

 behind the middle, anterior sulcus only distinct at the sides; 



