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Show 74 MR. M. JACOBY ON THE [Feb. 1, below the base, which interrupts the longitudinal costae, which latter are entire from there to the apices, those at the sides being frequently broken and shorter, and the interstices coarsely rugose and wrinkled. The legs are piceous, the apices of the tibiae and the tarsi obscure dark fulvous. Galle. A closely allied but distinct species belonging to this genus has been described by Walker in the 'Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist.' for 1858 as a Curculio and a Rhynchites, with which it has of course nothing iu common; that species, I believe also from Ceylon, is contained in the collection of the British Museum. I have placed the present species in M . Lefevre's genus Pagria (Bull, de France, 1884), on account of tbe sulcation above the eyes, although the convex shape of the thorax and its rounded sides differ from that of the species described by M . Lefevre ; but as the angulate and rounded margins of the thorax are both met with in the genus Nodostoma, it would not be wise to establish another genus on that character only, the more so as all other structural characters peculiar to Pagria are present in the species here described. NODINA SUBDILATATA, Motsch. A specimen named as above and contained in the collection of Mr. Baly agrees with those obtained by Mr. Lewi«. The description given by Motschulsky is too superficial and almost useless, and it is therefore on the authority of Mr. Baly that I refer the present species to that of Motschulsky. N. subdilatata seems to me to possess but little affinities in regard to structural characters to those species described subsequently by Mr. Baly and placed in Nodina. Pagria, Lefev., seems the proper genus in which to place the present species, as it agrees in general shape, the armed femora, and the orbital grooves, as well as in most other details, with that genus. I give here a renewed description of the species before me. Subquadrate-ovate ; black, above metallic green or aeneous; basal joints of the antennae, the base of the posterior femora, and the tibiae and tarsi fulvous; thorax closely and deeply punctured ; elytra with basal depression, strongly punctate-striate. Length 1-11 line. Head deeply but not closely punctured, deeply sulcate above the eyes ; epistome more closely punctured ; labrum and palpi fulvous. ' Antennse more than half the length of the body, the four basal joints fulvous, the rest black ; the second joint thickened, the third and fourth joints slender, of equal length, the others slightly thickened. Thorax one half broader than long, subcylindrical, convex, the sides rounded ; the surface closely covered with deep and round punctures, slightly transversely sulcate near the anterior margin. Elytra with a distinct depression below the base, very deeply punctate-striate, the interstices at the sides and near the apices costate, the punctuation much less deeply impressed below the middle ; femora dark aeneous, their apices more or less fulvous, tibiae and tarsi light fulvous ; tbe four posterior tibiae emarginate |
