NODOSTOMA. 347 



depression below base, marked with black ; interstices at sides 

 rather costate ; shoulders very prominent, followed by a short 

 oblique costa. Knees and breast sometimes marked with piceous. 



Length 3 mm. 



Hob. Southern Bombay : Kanara. 



Allied to N. geniculatum, Lefev. in coloration but with differently 

 coloured head, thorax, scuteilum, and underside. 



612. Nodostoma impressipenne, Jac, P. Z. S. 1887, p. 77. 



Testaceous ; last seven joints of antennae black ; sutural and 

 lateral margins of elytra obscure fulvous. 



Head strongly but very remotely punctured ; clypeus not sepa- 

 rated from the face ; antennae slender and long, third and fourth 

 joints equal. Thorax scarcely twice as broad as long, sides angu- 

 lated near the base, strongly narrowed anteriorly, anterior sulcus 

 distinct ; surface punctured as on the head. Elytra narrowed and 

 pointed at apex, with a deep basal depression, the latter deeply 

 punctured, rest of surface punctate-striate ; within the shoulders 

 and near the suture, a short row of deeper punctures extends 

 to base and two other short rows from below shoulders to margins. 

 Legs comparatively very elongate ; all the femora with a small tooth 

 beneath. 



Length 3 mm. 



Hab. Ceylon: Galle. 



Differs from N. fairmairei in the sculpture and comparative 

 greater length of the thorax and of the legs. 



613. Nodostoma nigrolineatum, sp. n. 



Beneath black, above testaceous ; head black on vertex ; disc 

 of thorax nearly black ; elytra with three or four short dark 

 stripes from base to middle, a transverse medial spot and a sutural 

 spot black. 



Head remotely and finely punctured, base black, the black 

 disposed as a transverse baud ; clypeus rather 

 more strongly punctured, somewhat feebly 

 emarginate in front ; basal six joints of the 

 antennae testaceous, rest in the type and 

 only specimen wanting, third and fourth 

 joints equal. Thorax short and strongly 

 transverse, angulated near the base, the 

 angle not strongly marked, anterior sulcus 

 entire ; surface extremely closely and finely 

 punctured; entire disc black, margins and 

 sides narrowly flavous. Elytra with a short 

 Fig. 121 .-Nodcttoma and dee P basal depression, strongly punctate 

 nigrolineatum. from base to middle, posterior halt nearly 



impunctate. Legs testaceous. 

 Length 2| mm. 

 H(ib. Travancore: Wallardi (Coll. Jacoby). 



