CRYPTOCEPHALUS. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Body short, robust, cylindric ; head vertical ; 

 antennae inserted between the eyes, simple, fili- 

 form, more than half the length of the body; 

 palpi terminating with a conic-cylindric joint, 

 maxillary palpi very apparent. 



OBSERVATIONS. 



Many of this group are agreeably ornamented 

 with coloured spots and lines. They were 

 mingled with the CnRYsoMELiE by Linne, from 

 which they may be known by the more cylin- 

 drical form of the body, and by the abrupt de- 

 flection of the head. In these characters, the 

 present genus corresponds with Clythra, to 

 which it is more closely allied than to any other ; 

 but the antennae of Clythra are short and ser- 

 rated, instead of being long, simple, and filiform, 

 as in the genus before us. The genus Crypto- 

 cephalus was established by Geoflfroy, and has 

 been adopted by the greater number of entomo- 



PliATE XXVIII. 



