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and latéral margins (more broadly) black, below and the legs 

 flavous or testaceous, the femora stalned with brown, Ihe tarsl 

 nearly black, broad; prosternum subquadrate, the posterior angles 

 acLite, produced. 



This Cryptocephaliis is of exactl y similar coloration as C. circumduc- 

 tus Sufï. from Geylon whlch I do not know, but seems to di(ïer, accor- 

 ding to the description, in the black outer joints of the antennse, the 

 black spots of the head and the sinoolh elylral interstices; the 

 prosternum in SuHVian's species bas the anterior margin produced 

 and hollowed and tlie tarsi are not black; in one spécimen of the 

 présent species, before. me, the elytral black margins are very 

 narrow and the shoulders hâve a small black spot, in other 

 respects their is no différence; the spots of tlie thorax are large and 

 round and not vei y widely separated. The species cannot be looked 

 upon as one of the numerous varielies of C. parasiticus Sulï. 

 because this author lays spécial stress upon the constancy of colo- 

 ration in regard to the sculelium, which is fulvous, margined with 

 black and in the pale flavous margin of elytra below the shoulders, 

 both parts of which are black in the species before me. 



CRYPTOCEPHALUS NIGROLINEATUS sp. n. 



Flavous, an intraocular stripe and the apical joints of the 

 antenna) black, thorax obscure fulvous with lighter margins, 

 Impunctate, elytra with black punctured striœ, the extrême latéral 

 margins posteriorly and a narrow latéral stripe, abbreviated near 

 the apex as well as the breast, black, tarsi fuscous. 



Length 4 mill. 



Head flavous, impunctate, the vertex, a central short stripe and 

 a litlle spot at the base of the antennse black, eyes rather closely 

 approached, labrum black, antennse scarcely extending to the 

 middie of the elyli'a, black, the basai two or three joints llavous, 

 the third, fourth and fiflh joint equal, the following ones longer; 

 thorax much narrowed anleriorly, with rounded sides, obscure 

 fulvous, the margins ralhcr paler, the surface entirely impunctate, 

 scutellum flavous, margined with black ; elytra with the extrême 

 margins black, the dise flavous-, fmely punctate-striate, the punc- 

 tures dark coloured, a narrow, deep black stripe runs dowuwards 

 from above Ihe shoulders neaily to the apex, occupying the seventh 

 interstice; the under side and the legs flavous, the tarsi obscure 

 piceous, the bieast and Ihe prosteriium black, the latter subqua- 

 drate, slightly concave. 



Hab. Pondicherry, India. 



Of this species, three spécimens are contained in my collection, 



