NODOSXOMA. 
847 
depression below base, marked with black ; interstices at sides 
rather costate; shoulders very prominent, followed by a short 
oblique costa. Knees and breast sometimes marked with piceous. 
Length 3 mm. 
llab. Southern Bombay : Kanara. 
Allied to N. geniculaium , Lefev. in coloration but with differently 
coloured head, thorax, scutellum, and underside. 
612. Nodostoma iinpressipenne, Jac. P. Z. 8. 1887, p. 77. 
Testaceous ; last seven joints of antennae black ; sutural and 
lateral margins of elytra obscure fulvous. 
Head strongly but very remotely punctured ; clypeus not sepa- 
rated from the face ; antennae slender and long, third and fourth 
joints equal. Thorax scarcely twice as broad as long, sides angu- 
lated near the base, strongly narrowed anteriorly, anterior sulcus 
distinct ; surface punctured as on the head. Elytra narrowed and 
pointed at apex, with a deep basal depression, the latter deeply 
punctured, rest of surface punctate-striate; within the shoulders 
and near the suture, a short row of deeper punctures extends 
to base aud two other short rows from below shoulders to margins. 
Legs comparatively very elongate ; all the femora with a small tooth 
beneath . 
Length 3 mm. 
Ilah. Ceylon : Galle. 
Differs from N. fairmairei in the sculpture and comparative 
greater length of the thorax and of the legs. 
613. Nodostoma nigrolineatum, sp. n. 
Beneath black, above testaceous ; head black on vertex ; disc 
of thorax nearly black ; elytra with three or four short dark 
stripes from base to middle, a transverse medial spot and a sutural 
spot black. 
Head remotely 
Fig. 121 . — Nodostoma 
nigrolineatum. 
and finely punctured, base black, the black 
disposed as a transverse band ; ctypeus rather 
more strongly punctured, somewhat feebly 
emarginate in front ; basal six joints of the 
antennae testaceous, rest in the type and 
only specimen wanting, third and fourth 
joints equal. Thorax short and strongly 
transverse, angulated near the base, the 
angle not strongly marked, anterior sulcus 
entire ; surface extremely closely and finely 
punctured ; entire disc black, margins and 
sides narrowly liavous. Elytra with a short 
and deep basal depression, strongly punctate 
from base to middle, posterior half nearly 
impunctate. Legs testaceous. 
Length 2| mm. 
Hah. Travancore: Wallardi (Coll. Jacoby). 
