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fortiter impressis ; interspatiis convexis, transversim rugulosis ; utrisque limbo angusto, exter- 
no ante medium excepto , maculisque quinque 2, 2, 1 dispositis nigris. 
Long. 2| lin. 
Var. A. Eygidio corporeque subtus flavis, Mo macula cuneiformi , pectore, abdominisque 
disco nigris. 
Var. JB. Corpore nigro, antennarim basi, clypeo, faciei signaturis, thoracisque lined 
longitudinali sordide flavis. 
Head rather coarsely hut not closely punctured, the puncturing varying in degree in 
different individuals ; front impressed with a distinct longitudinal groove ; clypeus broader 
than long, trigonate ; antennae three-fourths the length of the body in the $ , rather longer 
in the $ , the three lower joints pale piceous, the rest black. Thorax rather more than twice 
as broad as long at the base ; sides moderately rounded and obliquely converging from base 
to apex ; basal margin concave-emarginate on either side, the outer angles produced back- 
wards, acute ; above convex, minutely hut not closely punctured. Elytra slightly broader than 
the thorax, oblong-quadrate, convex, rather strongly punctate-striate, the punctures piceous, 
finer, and less strongly impressed towards the apex ; interspaces faintly hut distinctly convex, 
transversely wrinkled ; each elytron with the extreme outer limb (interrupted on the lateral 
margin before its middle) and five large patches black ; these spots are arranged as follows : 
two transversely below the base, the outer one oblong, covering the humeral callus and 
attached to the basal margin, the inner one subrotundate, placed on the inner disc ; two just 
below the middle also placed transversely, both subrotundate, the outer one usually attached 
to the lateral margin ; and, lastly, one apical, transversely oblong, either free or attached to 
the apical border ; these patches are often more or less confluent, and occasionally, as in 
var. B, cover the entire surface of the elytron. Pygidium and body beneath clothed with 
griseous hairs. Apical margin of prosternum obliquely produced, deflexed, slightly emar- 
ginate, the hinder margin concave, armed on either side with a deflexed, obtuse tooth ; 
mesosternum transverse, its apical border angulate-emarginate. Apical segment of abdo- 
men in the $ impressed with a shallow fovea ; the same segment in the ? deeply excavated, 
the fovea large, rotundate. Basal joint of the four anterior tarsi in the <J dilated, elongate- 
ovate, longer than the following two united. 
The form of the prosternum will separate this species from any nearly allied species. 
JELab . — Murree. 
6. — Nodostoma concinnicolle. 
Baly, Cist. Ent. ii., 1871 — 85, p. 373. 
Oblong o-ovatum, convexum, pallide piceum, nitidum, pedibus antennisque fulvis ; thorace 
transverso , luteribus ante basin acute angulatis, disco crebre foveolato-punctato j elytris 
nigris, fortiter punctato-striatis, interspatiis planis. 
Long. 2 lin. 
Var. A . Elytris piceo-fulvis, punctis piceis. 
Head coarsely and deeply punctured, the punctures on the extreme vertex crowded ; 
clypeus not distinctly separated from the face; antennae slender, filiform, the second joint 
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