NODOSTOMA. 
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fasciatum , Jac. In one specimen from Toungoo, the thorax is 
entirely impunctate and of more transverse shape than in another 
from the same locality, which in addition has the thoracic sulcus 
interrupted at the middle ; these differences are probably sexual 
distinctions. 
551. Nodostoma nigro-bimarginatnm, sp. n. 
Above fulvous ; beneath black ; scutellum, and sutural and 
lateral margins of elytra narrowly black. 
Oblong. Head sparingly and finely punctured ; clypeus not 
separated from the face, rather more strongly punctured, lateral 
margins raised ; eyes large and prominent ; antennae moderately 
long, fulvous, sixth and following joints distinctly shorter than the 
preceding joints and very slightly thickened. Thorax scarcely 
twice as broad as long, sides obtusely angulate behind the middle, 
obliquely narrowed in front, anterior sulcus distinct at sides only ; 
surface strongly but not very closely punctured at sides, more finely 
punctured on disc. Elytra rather pointed at apex, somewhat deeply 
transversely depressed at base, strongly punctate-striate on anterior 
half, smooth posteriorly, a single row of deep punctures near 
suture ; black margins of latter and of sides not quite extending to 
apex. Eemora unarmed. 
Length mm. 
Hub. Southern India: Nilgiris. Tenasserim : Mergui. Type 
in Brit. Mus. 
552. Nodostoma hampsoni, sp. n. 
Beneath black ; head and thorax obscurely fulvous, the latter 
more or less with a greenish-aeneous tint ; elytra pale fulvous, 
sutural and lateral margins black. 
Head with a few extremely minute punctures ; clypeus more 
strongly punctate : antenme slender, black, basal tw r o joints 
flavous. Thorax strongly transverse, subangulate near base, 
anterior sulcus distinct at the sides only, surface rather strongly 
but not very closely punctured. Elytra with deep transverse 
depression below base, distinctly punctured within the depression 
only, rest of surface nearly impunctate ; a short, oblique row of 
punctures from shoulders to lateral margins, the latter narrowly 
black on the middle portion only, sutural margins narrowly black 
or piceous from base to apex. 
Length 2\ mm. 
Hah. Southern India : Nilgiris (Hcimpson). Type in Brit. Mus. 
Differs from N. lewisi , Jac., as follows : the basal two joints of 
the antennae only flavous, a row of punctures from shoulders to 
margins and the underside black. 
553. Nodostoma latefasciatum, sp. n. 
Fulvous ; antennae (basal joints excepted) and a broad sutural 
band on elytra black. 
