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below the base, which interrupts the longitudinal costae, which latter 

 are entire from there to the apices, those at the sides being frequently 

 broken and shorter, and the interstices coarsely rugose and wrinkled. 

 The legs are piceous, the apices of the tibiae and the tarsi obscure 

 dark fulvous. 



Galle. 



A closely allied but distinct species belonging to this genus has 

 been described by Walker in the 'Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist.' for 

 1858 as a Curculio and a Rhijnchites, with which it has of couise 

 nothing in common ; that species, I believe also from Ceylon, is 

 contained in the collection of the British Museum. I have placed 

 the present species in M. Lefevre's genus Payria (Bull, de France, 

 1884), on account of the sulcation above the eyes, although the 

 convex shape of the thorax and its rounded sides differ from that of 

 the species described by M. Lefevre ; but as theangnlate and rounded 

 margins of the thorax are both met with in the genus Nodostoma, it 

 would not be wise to establish another genus on that character only, 

 the more so as all other structural characters peculiar to Pagria are 

 present in the species here described. 



NODINA SUBDILATATA, Motsch. 



A specimen named as above and contained in the collection of 

 Mr. Baly agrees with those obtained by Mr. Lewi^. The description 

 given by Motschulsky is too superficial and almost useless, and it is 

 therefore on the authority of Mr. Baly that I refer the present 

 species to that of Motschulsky. N. su/jdilatata seems to me to 

 possess but little affinities in regard to structural characters to those 

 species described subsequently b}^ Mr. Baly and placed in Nodina. 

 Pagria, Lefcv., seems the proper genus in which to place the present 

 species, as it agrees in general shape, the armed femora, and the 

 orbital grooves, as well as in most other details, with that genus. I 

 give here a renewed description of the species before nie. 



Subquadrate-ovate ; black, above metallic green or seiieons ; basal 

 joints of the antennee, the base of the posterior femora, and the 

 tibiae and tarsi fulvous ; thorax closely and deeply punctured ; 

 elytra with basal depression, strongly punctate-striate. 



Length 1-1 1 line. 



Head deeply but not closely punctured, deeply sulcate above the 

 eyes ; epistome more closely punctured ; labrum and palpi fulvous. 

 Antennae more than half the length of the body, the four basal 

 joints fulvous, the rest l)lack ; the second joint thickened, the third 

 and fourth joints slender, of equal length, the others slightly 

 thickened. Thorax one half broader than long, subcylindrical, con- 

 vex, the sides rounded ; the surface closely covered with deep and 

 round punctures, slightly transversely sulcate near the anterior 

 margin. Elytra with a distinct depression below the base, very 

 deeply punctate-striate, the interstices at the sides and near the 

 apices costate, the punctuation much less deeply impressed below 

 the middle ; femora dark aeneous, their apices more or less fulvous, 

 tibiae and tarsi light fulvous ; the four posterior tibiae emarginate 



