302 
CKRYSOMELIDiE. 
Species entirely metallic. 
Sides of thorax ungulate. 
517. Nodostoma denticolle, Jac.Ann.Mus. Civ. Genova, xxxii, 1892, 
p. 900. 
Metallic green or cupreous, antennae dark fulvous. 
Head extremely closely and rather finely rugose-punctate, with- 
out grooves ; labrum fulvous, with a black spot or entirely black ; 
palpi fulvous ; antennae slender and filiform. Thorax twice as 
broad as long, rather convex ; sides very acutely dentate behind 
the middle, strongly obliquely narrowed in front ; surface very 
closely and finely punctured throughout, anterior sulcus deep. 
Scutellum very minutely punctured. Elytra with deep transverse 
depression below base, the latter raised; shoulders very promi- 
nent ; surface finely punctate-striate, the striae distantly placed 
near suture, stronger and more closely approximate at sides ; 
punctures very fine behind the middle. Eemora with a small tooth. 
Length 6 mm. 
Hob. Bengal : Mandar ; Burma : Pegu District. 
518. Nodostoma nobilitatum, Jac. Ann. Soc. Ent. Bely, xxxix, 1895, 
p. 279. 
6 . Black or piceous beneath ; above metallic green or cupreous ; 
basal joints of antennae fulvous. 
Fig. 116. — Nodostoma nobilitatum. 
Head closely and strongly punctured throughout ; labrum 
fulvous ; antennae black, extending to middle of elytra, basal 
