896 MARTIN JACOBY 



black, posterior femora with a minute tooth, prosternun very 

 broad, with a few deep punctures. 



Garin Gheba, December. 



Smaller than N. aureocupreunij, Baly the thorax without au- 

 gniate sides , the labrum differently coloured and the posterior 

 femora with a small tooth. 



37. nVodostoma Tbliaxaoense , n. sp. 



Subquadrate-ovate, black, the basal joints of the antennae 

 fulvous ; above dark metallic blue , head and thorax strongly 

 and closely punctured , sides of the latter scarcely augniate at 

 base, elytra with basal depression, strongly punctured anteriorly, 

 finely posteriorly. 



Length 2 lines. 



Head strongly and rather closely punctured, metallic blue, 

 the episteme more strongly and closely punctate ; not separated 

 from the face, antennae filiform, black, the lower four joints 

 fulvous ; thorax twice as broad as long, the sides obliquely nar- 

 rowed in front scarcely augniate near the base, the disc very 

 closely and evenly impressed with deep round punctures, occu- 

 pying the entire surface, the subanterior groove deep ; scutellum 

 subpentagonal, impunctate ; elytra subquadrate, with a modera- 

 tely deep transverse depression below the base, purplish-blue, 

 the punctured striae rather closely placed strong at the anterior 

 portion very fine towards the apex, the sides with a narrowly 

 reilexed margin; underside and legs black, femora unarmed. 



Bhamò, June 1886. A single specimen. 



The thorax in this species is extremely closely and evenly as 

 well as strongly punctured without being rugose, and the lateral 

 angle near the base is scarcely perceptible ; N. Oberthuri^ Lefèv. 

 is very closely allied but differs in being smaller and having 

 the thorax much more finely, irregularly and semirugosely 

 punctured. 



