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base itself with a few remotely placed punctures arranged in rows 
which extend more or less distinctly as far as the middle, behind 
the middle the punctures are more or less obsolete. Femora with 
minute tooth. 
Length 2 mm. 
Rah, Ceylon : Galle. 
The nearly impunctate vertex, the strongly punctured clypeus 
and sides of thorax, joined to its small size and absence of an 
anterior thoracic sulcus, clearly distinguish this species. 
571. Nodostoma montanum, sp. n. 
<3 . Testaceous. Head entirely impunctate ; sides with oblique 
groove at base of the antennoe ; clypeus not separated from face but 
with a small fovea on each side; antennas testaceous, third joint 
shorter than the fourth, terminal joints slightly thickened. Thorax 
twice as broad as long, sides angulate near base, moderately obliqun 
towards apex, no anterior sulcus ; surface with a few strong punc- 
tures on the sides only, disc with a few fine punctures. Elytra oblong, 
narrowed at apex, with very feeble depression at base, shoulders 
only slightly prominent ; surface very regularly and somewhat 
finely punctate-striate, apex very obsoletely punctured. Legs 
unarmed. — $ . Similar but with much shorter antennae, a more trans- 
verse thorax and a short feeble elytra! costa below shoulders. 
Length 2 mm. 
Hob. Burma : Karen Hills. Type in Brit. Mus. 
Nearly allied to N. clypeaturn, Jac., from Ceylon ; but the 
clypeus impunctate, the antennae entirely testaceous, elytral 
depression nearly absent. 
572. Nodostoma weisei, Jac. Mem. Sac. Ent. Bely, vii, 1900, p. 105. 
Testaceous. Head and the clypeus also very sparingly punc- 
tured ; antennoe long and filiform, third joint longer than second and 
more slender. Thorax rather more than twice as broad as long, 
ides angulate near base ; surface finely and closely punctured, 
anterior sulcus entire, punctures at sides of thorax slightly larger 
than those on the middle but not more closely placed. Elytra 
oblong-ovate, with deep basal depression, strongly punctured 
anteriorly, much more finely so behind the middle, a short oblique 
costa at the shoulders. 
Jjengtli 2-2 1 mm. 
Hub. Bengal: Barway, Mandar. Southern India: Nilgiris, 
Anaimalais. 
Principally distinguished from most of the similarly coloured 
species by the sparingly punctured head, short and very strongly 
trausverse thorax and its fine and rather close puncturation, the 
very long antennae, &c. 
