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bifid, abdominal segments margined with fulvous, finely clothed 

 with white pubescence. 



Hab. Sipora, Sereinu. 



This species resembles greatly the only other one contained 

 in this genus, N. pollinaria , Baly from India, but may be at 

 once separated by the different shape of the thorax, which has 

 its anterior portion raised and the sides depressed; on account 

 of the entire insect being covered by white powdery excrescence 

 (which in rubbed specimens reveals the black ground colour) 

 this raised portion of the thorax is somewhat obscured. 



2. Nodina apicipes, sp. n. — Metallic dark greenish or cupreous, 

 the basal joints of the antennae, and the apex of the tibiae ful- 

 vous, thorax strongly and subremotely punctured, elytra strongly 

 punctate-striate, the interstices flat and impunctate. 



Length 7a "V* line. 



Head sparingly but strongly punctured, the clypeus not sepa- 

 rated from the face, antennae extending to the base of the 

 thorax, the lower five joints fulvous, the others nearly black, 

 thickened, thorax more than twice as broad as long, the sides 

 nearly straight at the base, rounded anteriorly, the punctures 

 strong, round and deep, not very closely placed, except at the 

 sides, the posterior margin accompanied by a row of closely 

 placed punctures, elytral punctures of the same size as those of 

 the thorax , but getting gradually finer towards the apex , the 

 space at the sides near the latter, impunctate, underside and 

 legs nearly black, the apex of the tibiae and the tarsi (more or 

 less) fulvous, the four posterior tibiae distinctly emarginate. 



Hab. Sipora, Sereinu, Si-Oban. 



Closely allied to N. birmanica, Jac. (Genoa, Annals, XXXII, 

 1892, p. 904) but smaller, and the basal joints of the antennae 

 fulvous only, the elytral punctuation finer towards the apex ; 

 although a good many species of similar size have been described, 

 the present one, of which nearly a dozend specimens are before 

 me, may be known by the colour of the tibiae and tarsi which 

 resembles that of N. birmanica,, that species differs however in 

 the above pointed out details. N. fulvitarsis* Jac. from Sumatra 



