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depression, but being narrowed posteriorly along the lateral margin. 

 Legs long and slender, testaceous, the knees obscure piceous ; the 

 femora armed with a small tooth. 



The variety, which I believe is a female, is of larger size, the 

 elytra are less strongly punctured and entirely dark fulvous ; the 

 terminal joints of the antennae are also stained with fuscous ; but in 

 all other respects this specimen agrees with the type. N. longicorne 

 may be distinguished from numerous other similarly coloured species 

 by the long antennae and the finely punctured head and thorax. 



NODOSTOMA FAIRMAIREI, Sp. nOV. 



Pale testaceous ; antennae (the two or three basal joints excepted) 

 black, tarsi stained with piceous ; thorax strongly and remotely 

 punctured ; elytra with basal depression, strongly punctured ante- 

 riorly, more finely towards the apices. 



Length l|-2 lines. 



Head remotely but strongly punctured, the epistome not separated 

 from the face. Antennae two thirds the length of the body, the 

 first joint short and dilated, the third and fourth thin and of nearly 

 equal length, the others slightly thicker. Thorax scarcely twice as 

 broad as long in the male, the sides subangnlate below the middle, 

 narrowed in front, the surface strongly punctured at the sides and 

 anteriorly, the interstices slightly rugose. Elytra subcyliudrical, 

 parallel, distinctly depressed below the base, the punctuation rather 

 strong anteriorly, gradually diminishing posteriorly. Legs rather 

 long ; the femora armed with a small tooth ; the extreme apices of 

 the tibife and the tarsi stained with piceous. 



Dikoya. 



N.fairmairei differs from N. ohliteratum in the much stronger 

 punctuation of the head and thorax, the shorter and nearly black 

 antennae, and in the similarly coloured apices of the tibae. 



NODOSTOMA OBLITERATUM, Sp. UOV. 



Pale flavous ; antennae as long as the body ; head and thorax 

 with a few fine punctures, the latter angulate near the base ; elytra 

 with basal depression, very finely punctured anteriorly, the punctures 

 nearly obsolete below the middle. 



Length 11-2 lines. 



Head with a few scarcely visible punctures ; the epistome not 

 separated from the front ; jaws piceous. Antennte slender, fulvous, 

 the terminal joints more or less stained with fuscous. Thorax nearly 

 three times as broad as long, the sides strongly narrowed in front, 

 distinctly angular near the base ; surface with a distinct narrow 

 groove close to the anterior margin, very finely and sparingly punc- 

 tured. Elytra slightly broader at the base than the thorax, the 

 sides parallel, the shoulders moderately prominent, the subbasilar 

 depression distinct but not deep, the punctuation much more dis- 

 tinctly visible anteriorly than posteriorly, where only traces of it can 

 be seen under a strong lens ; femora armed with a small tooth. 



Dikoya. 



