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rather finely but not closely punctured. Scutellum flavous. 
Elytra with deep but short depression below base, shoulders 
prominent, followed by a short costa, surface strongly punctate- 
striate anteriorly. Femora with a minute tooth. 
Var. a. Body beneath black. 
Var. b. Above and beneath entirely flavous. 
Length 3 mm. 
Hub. Southern India : Nilgiris. 
A small species which has also been obtained by Mr. 11. L. 
Andrewes lately ; in some of these specimens the head is entirely 
impunctate. The angle at the sides of the thorax is placed close 
to the base, and the flavous apex of the elytra appears like a 
narrow band extending upwards a little way along the lateral 
margins. I have but little doubt that the entirely unicolorous 
pale specimens represent the same species, since there are abso- 
lutely no structural differences. The species is characterized by 
the nearly or entirely impunctate head and very finely but not 
very closely punctured and short thorax. 
600. Nodostoma flavolimbatnm, sp. n. 
Fulvous ; elytra black, extreme apex fulvous ; sides of breast black. 
Oblong, convex, subcylindrical. Head impunctate ; clypeus 
with a few punctures at base, sides with a fovea indicating 
separation from face ; antennae slender, fulvous, terminal joints 
scarcely thicker than the basal. Thorax more than twice as 
broad as long, sides angulated near base ; anterior sulcus deep at 
sides, obsolete in the middle, the sulcus with a few fine punctures; 
disc impunctate or with a few punctures, widely scattered. !3cu- 
tellum black. Elytra with distinct basal depression, strongly 
punctate-striate anteriorly, posterior portion nearly impunctate, a 
single row of punctures near suture distinct to apex. Breast 
black ; legs fulvous ; femora unarmed. 
Length 2f mm. 
Hob. Southern India: .Nilgiris ; Burma: Kuby Mines. Ty r pe 
in Brit. Mus. 
The small size and black elytra with the apical margins narrowly 
fulvous, separate this species from its allies. The specimens 
from the Nilgiris only differ in having the legs more or less 
stained with piceous and some slight variations in puncturation. 
601. Nodostoma terminatum, sp. n. 
Oblong ; nearly black ; basal joints of antennae and femora 
more or less fulvous ; apex of elytra flavous. 
Head sparingly and very remotely punctured ; antennae black, 
basal three joints obscure fulvous beneath, third joint but little 
longer than second, following joints of similar length. Thorax 
half as broad again as long, sides strongly angulated directly 
behind the middle, anterior sulcus only distinct at the sides ; 
