ClIRYSOMELIDJE. 
34 G 
row of punctures at extreme base, middle with short groove ; 
clypeus separated at the sides by an elongate fovea, semicircularly 
emarginate in front ; mandibles black ; antennae long and slender, 
pale fulvous, apex of terminal joint thickened, piceous. Thorax 
very short, strongly transverse, sides obtusely angulated near the 
base, strongly obliquely narrowed anteriorly, anterior sulcus deep 
and narrow ; surface very sparingly and finely punctured at the sides 
only. Scutellum broad, impunctate. Elytra with a deep fovea 
below base, the interior of which is black ; surface rather strongly 
punctate-striate, punctures at the sides very strong, closely placed ; 
a short oblique costa from shoulders to margins, interstices slightly 
convex. Posterior femora with a distinct tooth beneath. 
Vcir. Elytra, the extreme base excepted, black. 
Length 34-4 mm. 
Hab. Burma : Momeit. Type in Brit. Mus. 
Differs from N. cardoni , Jac. in the impunctate head and 
nearly impunctate thorax, the black apex of the femora and the 
want of the black sutural and lateral margins. In the female the 
punctures at the sides of the thorax are rather more distinct (in some 
males the entire thorax is nearly impunctate). Some specimens 
have the elytral spots scarcely indicated, some entirely absent, but 
the black apex of the femora seems constant. In one instance 
the elytra are black, with the extreme basal margin only fulvous ; 
whether this is the normal form or a variety of the one described 
above I cannot say, the specimen agrees in every other respect 
with the type. 
Gil. Nodostoma discicolle, Jac. Mem. Soc. Ent. Bely, xxxix, 1895, 
p. 278. 
Eulvous ; thorax with two large nearly connected discoidal 
black spots ; elytra with a small piceous 
spot within depression. 
Head strongly and closely punctured ; 
clypeus not separated from the face, closely 
punctured like the head ; antennae slender, 
fulvous, terminal joints stained with 
piceous, third joint half the length of 
the fourth ; vertex of head sometimes 
with a small piceous spot. Thorax rather 
more than twice as broad as long, 
sides rather strongly rounded, very obso- 
letely angulate near base, anterior sulcus 
entire ; surface very finely and closely 
punctured on the disc, sides more strongly 
punctured, middle with a narrow longi- 
tudinal smooth line ; disc with two large 
black patches, the margins around them 
only, of the ground-colour. Scutellum with 
apex broadly rounded. Elytra deeply and closely punctate-striate 
at sides, more finely punctured near the suture ; a deep transverse 
Fig. 120. 
Noclostoma discicolle. 
