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CHRYSOMELIDJE. 
Length 3-3| mm. 
Lab. Travancore : Wallardi (Coll. Jacobg). 
A variable species in regard to colour, the head either entirely 
or partly pale and black, thorax sometimes entirely black, 
strongly punctured. The puncturation on the elytra in 
the depression separates this species from some of the similarly 
coloured varieties of N. variabile, Duv. ( manclarense , Jac.). IV. 
geniculatum , Lefev., in some of its varieties resembles the present 
insect in coloration, but may be distinguished by the extremely 
finely and closely punctured thorax. 
549. Nodostoma lewisi, Jac. P. Z. S. 1887, p. 77. 
Fulvous ; elytra testaceous ; terminal joints of antennoe and 
sutural and lateral margins of elytra narrowly black. 
Head shining, fulvous, with a few punctures at base and between 
the eyes ; antennae long and slender, basal four joints fiavous, rest 
black, third and fourth equal, rest not thicker. Thorax about 
half as broad again as long, sides distinctly angulate near base, 
strongly obliquely narrowed anteriorly, sulcus distinct at sides 
only, surface very strongly and rather closely punctured, interstices 
more or less convex. Elytra oblong, distinctly transversely de- 
pressed below the base, the latter only distinctly punctured, rest of 
surface nearly impunctate. 
Length 2-2| mm. 
Hab. Ceylon : Dikoya. 
In some specimens the thorax has the disc more or less piceous, 
and the black sutural stripe varies somewhat in width. 
550. Nodostoma bengalense, Duviv. Bull. Soc. But. Belg. xxxv, 
1891, p. xxxviii. 
Fulvous ; elytra with the suture broadly and apical portion of 
lateral margins more or less black. 
Head with a few hne punctures ; clypeus separated at the sides by 
a fovea, surface with a few punctures ; antennae filiform, fifth and 
following joints more or less darkened, third joint shorter than the 
fourth. Thorax about twice as broad as long, distinctly angulate 
at sides near base, anterior sulcus well marked and strongly 
punctured ; surface with a few very fine, widely separated punc- 
tures. Elytra with strongly raised base, deeply depressed below that, 
bearing some deep punctures within the depression, rest of the 
surface nearly impunctate, sutural portion with some rows of fine 
punctures. 
Var. Elytra entirely fulvous or fiavous. 
Length 3i-4i mm. 
Hab. Bengal : Konbir-Nowatoli ; Burma : Toungoo. 
The nearly impunctate thorax and only partly punctured elytra 
are the principal characters that separate this species from N. nigro- 
