NODOSTOMA. 
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Head nearly impunctate, iiat ; eyes notched ; clypeus separated 
from face by a transverse depression, cupreous like the rest of 
the head ; labrum aud palpi piceous ; an- 
tennae more than half the length of the 
body, basal live joints fulvous, rest black, 
second joint extremely small, third and 
fourth elongate, equal, terminal joints 
slightly curved, inserted at the extreme 
base of the preceding joint. Thorax twice 
as broad as long, slightly widened at middle, 
sides narrowed in front, narrowly margined ; 
surface strongly and remotely punctured, 
more closely so at sides. Scutellum metallic 
green. Elytra very strongly punctate-striate, the punctures 
arranged in close rather regular rows ; interstices somewhat 
rugose and costate near apex. Femora metallic green, posterior 
femora with some long stiff bristles, their apices with a deep 
excavation ; lower edge with a long blunt appendage ending in a 
small point piceous in colour with a bluish gloss. 
Length 6 mm. 
Hah . Burma : Karennee. Type in the G-enoa Museum. 
Genus NODOSTOMA. 
Nodostoma, Motsch. Reise Amur, ii, I860, p. 176. 
Basilepta (part.), Rail/, Journ. JEnt. i, 1860, p. 23 ; Chapuis , Gen. 
Coleopt. x, 1874, p. 261 ; Lef'ev. Cat. Eumolp. 1885, p. 57. 
Type, N. fulvipes, Motsch., from China. 
Range. Most parts of India, Malay Archipelago ; Tropical Asia. 
Body ovate or oblong ; antennae filiform, apical joints sometimes 
slightly thickened. Thorax generally transverse, narrowed in 
front, rarely subcylindrical, more or less angulate at the sides 
near base, with narrow sulcus near the anterior margin. Elytra 
generally wider at base than the thorax, and more or less deeply 
depressed below base, punctate-striate, sometimes metallic, gene- 
rally flavous or fulvous. Prosternum broad, subquadrate, base 
truncate. Legs rather long ; femora incrassate, frequently with a 
small tooth ; intermediate and posterior tibiae emarginate at apex, 
claws appendiculate. 
The species of this genus are very numerous, closely allied and 
often difficult to distinguish. They vary also frequently in the 
shape of the thorax and prosternum, but this is so much a matter 
of degree that it does not allow of subgeueric separation. As a 
rule, the species of Nodostoma may be known by the transverse, 
anteriorly strongly narrowed thorax and its more or less distinctly 
angulated' sides ; there is also a narrow sulcus close to the anterior 
margin, more or less strongly marked, but always distinct at the 
sides. 
