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the last joint piceons. Thorax nearly twice as broad as long, sides 
rounded; anterior sulcus very narrow, distinct at the sides only; 
surface closely and deeply foveolate-punctate, interstices at the 
sides reticulate and continently raised, punctures near anterior 
margin, at middle, hue. Elytra feebly depressed below base, paler 
in coloration than the thorax, margins obscure fulvous, anterior 
portion distinctly, apical portion very finely punctured. Eemora 
unarmed. 
Length mm. 
Ilab. Southern India; Nilgiri and Anaimalai Hills (Coll. H. 
E. Andrewes). 
Amongst the smaller Indian species with rounded sides, there is 
none with an equally deeply punctured thorax. This will help in 
the recognition of the insect. 
Elytra only generally metallic; other parts mostly reddish, 
exceptionally blaclc. 
578. Nodostoma haroldi, Jae., nom. nov. 
Nodostoma aeneipenne, Laly (nec Motschulsky) , Trans. Ent. Soc. 
1867, p. 235. 
Var. apicipes, Jac. Entomologist Suppl. 1892, p. 87. 
Rufous ; antennae (basal joints excepted) black ; knees, tibiae 
and tarsi dark piceous ; elytra aeneous or metallic green. 
Head with large deep scattered punctures ; clypeus not separated 
from face, anterior border deeply angulate-emarginate ; mandibles 
black, middle portion rufo-piceous ; antennae filiform, rather more 
than half the length of the body, basal four joints obscure fulvous, 
third nearly twice the length of the second. Thorax at base more 
than twice as broad as long, sides with lateral border very nar- 
rowly dilated, abruptly angulated just in front of the base, obliquely 
divergent to apex, anterior and posterior angles tuberculate ; 
surface with large deep punctures, irregularly scattered over the 
disc ; anterior sulcus with oblong punctures. Scutellum longer 
than broad, subpentagonal. Elytra excavated below basilar space 
and within humeral callus, deeply and strongly punctured, strife 
entire, punctures smaller on basilar space and behind the middle. 
Eemora with a tooth. 
Length 4 mm. 
Hah. Assam ; Burma : Teinzo, Karennee ; Tenasserim. 
Malacca ( Baly ). 
The Indian specimens agree so closely with Baly’s type in the 
British Museum that I cannot separate them satisfactorily. 
Var. apicipes , Jac. has the apex of the tibiae and the tarsi more 
or less piceous. 
579. Nodostoma dormeri, Baly, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 39. 
Rufous ; antennae (base excepted), mandibles, tibiae and tarsi 
black ; elytra bright metallic green. 
Oblong-ovate. Head coarsely and closely punctured, rugose, 
