NODOSTOMA. 
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543. Nodostoma plagiosum, Italy, Cist. Ent. ii, 1880, p. 373. 
“Piceous; antennae and legs piceo-fulvous ; elytra obscure 
fulvous, the sutural and lateral margins very narrowly and an 
irregular transverse patch from below the base to the middle or 
beyond it, piceous. 
“ Oblong ; vertex and front subremotely punctured ; clypeus 
strongly and closely punctured, anterior 
border deeply excavate - emarginate, the 
emargination produced at sides into a tooth; 
antennae slender, second and third joints 
nearly equal in length, fourth very slightly 
longer than the third. Thorax nearly twice 
as broad as long, sides diverging at the base, 
obtusely angulate behind the middle, thence 
obliquely convergent and very slightly roun- 
ded to apex ; disc transversely eom r ex, very 
coarsely and deeply punctured. Elytra con- 
vex, strongly punctate-striate, the punctures 
nearly obsolete near apex ; interstices plain, 
impunctate ; the piceous patch covers the 
outer disc (shoulders excepted).’’ (Bah/.) 
Length 3 mm. 
Hab. “ Kashgar ” (Baly.) India: Murree ; 
Assam : Khasi Hills. 
A well-marked species, with the elytral patch of variable length; 
the antennae have the basal joints more or less flavous, and in the 
specimens from the Khasi Hills before me the legs are entirely 
of that colour. The thorax in the male is only half as broad again 
as long ; in both sexes the extreme anterior margin is flavous, 
rest of the disc piceous and very strongly punctured. 
544. Hodostoma nigrocinctum, sp. n. 
Testaceous ; head and thorax obscure fulvous ; elytra with 
sutural and lateral margins narrowly and a spot below base, 
black. 
Head very strongly and subremotely punctured throughout ; 
clypeus not separated from the face, feebly semicircularly emarginate 
at the middle of the anterior border ; antennse slender, flavous, third 
joint only a little longer than the second and scarcely more than 
half the length of the fourth. Thorax very short, rather more 
than twice as broad as long, sides angulate near base ; surface 
strongly and very closely punctured, more so at the sides than in 
the middle ; anterior sulcus narrow and entire. Scutellum with 
some extremely fine punctures. Elytra oblong, a round black 
fovea below the base ; surface strongly punctate-striate anteriorly, 
finely so behind the middle, the black colour of the margins not 
extending to apex. Legs testaceous. 
Length 3 mm. 
