NODOSTOMA. 
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punctate-striate throughout, interstices minutely and sparingly 
punctured. 
Length 3 mm. 
ITab. Assam : Patkai Mts. (Colls. Brit. Mus. 4' Jacoby). 
Separated by the colour ot‘ the antennae in connection with the 
rounded sides of thorax, the feeble elytral depression and the 
regular rows of punctures over their entire surface, also by the 
fiuely punctured elytral interstices. 
Above testaceous. Sides of thorax angulate. 
565. Nodostoma thoracicum, sp. n. 
Entirely testaceous. Head with a few widely distributed punc- 
tures ; clvpeus similarly sculptured, its sides cariniform, anterior 
margin deeply semicircularly emarginate ; antennae long and 
slender, testaceous, apical joint fuscous, third and fourth joints very 
Fig. 118 . — Nodostoma thoracicum. 
elongate, equal. Thorax half as broad again as long, sides angu- 
larly rounded near base, anterior sulcus distinct at the sides only; 
surface very deeply but not very closely punctured, the punctures 
round. Elytra elongate, pale testaceous, with deep basal depres- 
sion, the latter with a few punctures, another short row of 
punctures within the shoulders that extends to base, rest of 
surface impunctate. Anterior femora strongly thickened and with 
a minute tooth. 
Length 3| mm. 
Hob. Southern India : Nilgiris ; Southern Bombay : Belgaum 
( Colls, hi. E. Andrewes df Jacoby). 
Separated by the exceptionally strongly punctured thorax and 
the nearly impunctate elytra. 
