( 5l'' ) 



Cryptocephalus caeruleomaculatus sp. nov. 



Fulvous, the upper part of the head aud an angular transvoi-se liaud on the 

 disc of the thorax black, elytra deeply puuctate-striate, a transverse hand sit the 

 base and two elongate spots below the middle, bluish black, the femora above, the 

 apex of tlie tibiae aud the tarsi black. 



Length 2| lines. 



Head finely punctured on the vertex, Mai'k, the broad clypeus aud tlie laliruni 

 reddish fulvous, impunctate, antennae with the lower two joints flavous, the 

 Ibllowing three jiiceous, the rest broken oif ; thorax twice as broad as loug, strongly 

 uarrowed in front, the lateral margins nearly straight, the posterior margin sinuate 

 iit each side, its median lobe produced, truncate, the surface im])unctate, fulvous, 

 the middle with a transverse black band, increasing in width at its middle aud 

 sending ofi" a lirauch at eacli end at right angles towards the base without (j^uite 

 touching the latter ; scutellum broad, its apex broadly truncate, Idack, impunctate, 

 the base with a small fovea ; elytra of parallel shape, broad, the shoulders bounded 

 l)y a deep dejjression within, the punctures large, rather distantly placed and not 

 liner at the apex, the interstices slightly transversely wrinkled, tlie surface fulvous, 

 with a narrow transverse bluish black baud at the base aud two elongate spots 

 below the middle, the outer one of which is placed close to the lateral margiu, 

 the latter and the sutural margin also narrowly edged with black ; pygidium 

 fulvous, closely punctured ; underside finely pubescent, the sides of the breast aud 

 the legs flavous, rest of the underside fnlvons, the femora lilack above as well as 

 the apex of the tibiae and the tarsi : prosternum suli(piadrate, scarcely broader than 

 long. 



Hab. Betsileo, Madagascar, 300U to 40o() feet. A single specimen. 



Probably allied to C. elliptii-Ks Chap, from Aliyssinia : the marking of the 

 thorax in the ijresent species is rather characteristic. 



Cryptocephalus brevicornis sp. nov. 



Reddish fulvous, the apical joints of the antennae lilack, thorax impunctate, the 

 disc with four lilack sjjots placed ipiadrately, scutellum black, elytra strongly 

 jiunctate-striate, a common sutural spot below the middle and three others placed 

 triangularly on the disc of each elytra, black, the femora anil the tibiae at the 

 apex as well as the tarsi, black. 



Length 2 lines. 



Parallel, lii'oad, and sulicyliudrical, the Iiead imjiunctate, the eyes widely 

 sejiarated, deejily triangularly notched, labrum stained with piceous, antennae 

 ]iroportionately very short, only extending to the base (if the elytra, black, the 

 lower three joints fulvous, the third joint scarcely longer than the second, the 

 terminal joints rather flattened and widened ; thorax more than twice as broad 

 as long, the sides with a narrow nuirgin, slightly and gradually rounded in 

 front, the latter also very narrowly marginate, posterior margin finely serrate, 

 narrowly black, its median hibe straight, the surface impunctate, with two 

 black spots on the middle of the disc and two others of more transverse shape, 

 placed below the first on the basal margin ; scutellum broad, its apex pointed, 

 black- ; elytra very slightly narrowed towards the apex, without l)asal depression, 

 strongly punctato-striatc, the jjuuctures much finer at the apex, the latter margiued 



