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C'HRYSOMELIDiE. 
<5 • Head finely and remotely punctured ; clypeus not separated 
from the face, with some widely placed strong punctures ; 
antennae nearly extending to apex of elytra, basal four joints and 
base of fifth flavous, rest black, third distinctly shorter than 
fourth, terminal joints very elongate and slender. Thorax at 
base twice as broad as long, sides strongly angulated near base, 
anterior sulcus deep and entire ; surface convex, very finely and 
remotely punctured. Scutellum piceous or fulvous. Elytra 
broadly ovate, with a short not very deep depression below base, 
rather finely and closely punctate-striate, tne depression some- 
what more strongly and irregularly punctured. Eemora with a 
small tooth. 
Var. Head, thorax, underside and legs flavous or the whole 
insect flavous. 
Length 4-5 mm. 
Hab. Sikhirn : Kurseong ; Bengal : Maudar. 
Very variable in colour, some specimens have the upper portion 
of the head flavous and the lower piceous or entirely of either 
colour. The species differs from N. fulvipes, Mots., and its varieties 
in the remote puncturation of the head and thorax, although in 
the female it is rather more close. The colour of the elytra and 
of the underside separates this from the preceding species. 
584. Nodostoma subcostatum, Jac. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxvii, 
1889, p. 104. 
Eulvous or piceous; head, thorax and legs rufous; elytra 
metallic green or blue. 
Head strongly but remotely punctured, puncturation stronger 
on the clypeus, anterior edge of latter deeply emarginate ; 
antennae filiform, flavous, terminal joints stained with fuscous, 
third and fourth very elongate, equal. Thorax rather more than 
twice as broad as long, strongly narrowed anteriorly, sides 
distinctly angulated near base ; anterior sulcus entire, deep and 
strongly punctured ; surface strongly and closely punctured at the 
sides, more remotely so on the disc. Scutellum fulvous. Elytra 
rather broadly oblong, basal portion raised, with a depression 
below; surface strongly punctate-striate, the punctures distinct but 
rather finer near apex ; shoulders costiform, a ridge below them 
running parallel with the lateral margins to about the middle ; 
interstices somewhat raised, more distinctly so at sides. Eemora 
with a very small tooth. 
Var. a. Tlead fulvous, thorax and elytra blue. 
Yar. b. Entirely fulvous. 
Length 3 mm. 
Hab. Assam ; Burma : Tharawaddy, Teinzo, Bhamo. 
No other species of this section is known to me in which the 
elytral lateral costa is continued to or behind the middle ; this 
seems the same in both sexes but to a greater extent in the 
female. 
