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scutellum subpentagonal, elytra irregularly punctured, legs mode- 

 rately robust, the femora very obsoletely loothed, the libise enlire, 

 not emarginate, strongly longitudinally chanelled, the tarsi broad, 

 the claws appendiculate; prosternum broad, its base truncate, the 

 anterior margin of the thoracic episternum concave. 



The species for which this genus is proposed, has quite the appea- 

 rance of a Nodostoma and would perhaps best be placed in the group 

 Odontionopœ of Ghapuis on account of the characters pointed out 

 above; the prosternum is however not constricted at the middle but 

 broad and the femora are very obsoletely toothed, the gênerai shape 

 of the insect also differs in being ovate. 



NODOSTONOPA SUBCOSTATA n. sp. 



iEneous or metallic green, the antennse and legs fulvous, thorax 

 extremely closely and finely punctured, elytra more strongly and 

 very closely punctured, with 7 or 8 longitudinal feebly raised 

 smooth costse. 



Mas. MetalUc green, the elytral costae cupreous. 



Fem, iEneous or cupreous, the costae purplish. 



Length 5-6 mill. 



Mas. Head very finely and closely punctured throughout, with a 

 small fovea at the middle, labrum piceous, eyes entire, antennae 

 long and filiform, extending to the end of the elytra, the second 

 joint half the length of the third, the following joints nearly equal, 

 thorax twice as broad as long, the sides obliquely narrowed towards 

 the apex, the posterior margin slightly but broadly produced at the 

 middle, the surface punctured like the head, evenly and finely; 

 elytra narrowed towards the apex, the latter acute, the punctuation 

 scarcely stronger than that of the thorax and interrupted by seven 

 narrow and feebly raised longitudinal costse of différent colour than 

 that of the rest of the surface; below and the legs metallic greenish 

 or seneous, the abdomen more or less piceous, the femora much 

 thickened, with an extremely small tooth. 



Hab. Diego Suarez. 



The interstices between the elytral costae generally contain three 

 rows of punctures, in one spécimen before me, the thorax is almost 

 finely rugosely punctured but there are no other différences to be 

 found. The maie is of more metallic green coloration and the female 

 more sombre and aeneous with the costse darker. 



ENDOSGHYRUS n. gen. (Eumolpid^). 



I propose this genus for the réception oî Endocephalus rétif era 

 Baly which has originally been described from Parana in South 



