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the midJle and a humerai and central spot near the margin, black, 

 tibise at the apex and the tarsi black. 



Length 4 mlll. 



Narrow and parallel, of small size, the head fulvous, the vertex 

 black, impunctate, clypens concave-einarginate at the anterior 

 edgo, antennas extending lo the base of the thorax, fuscous, the 

 basai Ihree joints falvoas, thorax transvei'SG and sliort, more than 

 twice as broad as long, the sides straighl, the posterior angles 

 obtuse, surface extremely minutely punclured, fulvous, with a 

 round black spot at each side and a somewhat heart-shaped one at 

 the middle, scutellum black; elytra with a slight basai dépression 

 at the suture, distincUy and regularly punctate-strlate, the suture 

 wilh a longitudinal black band from the base to the middle the end 

 of which is suddenly widened, the sides likewise black in shape of 

 a longitudinal band lo which a humerai and médian black spot is 

 attached as well as a transverse band below the middle; pygidium 

 imperfeclly covered by the elytra, the humerai lobe of the lalter 

 very feeble; below fulvous, clothed wilh silvery pubescence, the 

 breast more or less fuscous, the anterior femora, the apex of the 

 others and the base of the tibiae fulvous; tarsi rather broad, the 

 third joint deeply bilobed, 



Hab. Kanara and Nilgiri Hills. 



The regularly punctate-striate elytra and their pattern will easily 

 distinguish this little species, in one spécimen, the suturai band is 

 only represented by the poslerior portion and the markings of the 

 thorax are very small. 



CRYPTOCEPHALID^. 



CRYPTOGEPHALUS ANGUSTOMARGINATUS sp. n. 



Flavous, Iwo spots on the thorax, the margins of the elytra and 

 the tarsi black, head slrongly punctured, thorax impunctato, elytra 

 finely punotate-striate. 



Length 3 1/2 mill. 



Head rallier slrongly but not vei y closely punctured, wilh a small 

 black spot at the middle of the veitox and another at Ihe base of the 

 antennai, the lalter rather short, the basai five joints flavous, the 

 rest black, the third, fourlh and liflh joint of equal length, the ouler 

 joints slightly thickened; thorax twice as i)road as long, narrowed 

 in front, very convex, flavous, impunetate, the extrême margins 

 and two spots at the middle of Ihe dise, black; scutellum black; 

 elytra slightly narrowed posteriorly, finely punctate-striate, the 

 interstices flat and impunetate, Ihe suture (very narrowly) the basai 



