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flavous, the middle of the dise with two large black spots, which 

 sometimes are joined anterioiiy, the sides with another smaller 

 spot, scutellum broad, its apex pointed, black, shining; elytra very 

 slightly narrowed at Ihe apex, reddish fulvous, deeply punctate- 

 striate, Ihe interstices flat and impunctate, slightly wrinkled, each 

 elytron with a round black spot on the shoulders, another near the 

 scutellum not touching the base nor the suture, and a transverse 

 band near the apex, not extending to eilher margin, pygidium 

 black, the apex with a semicrescent flavous band ; legs fulvous, the 

 prosternum, the first abdominal segment and the posterior margin 

 of the second, flavous. 



C. nilgiriensis agrées almost entirely with C. hissexsignatus Sufî. 

 in coloration but the size of this species is given as 4 Unes, the head 

 is finely punctured and the four spots of the thorax instead of being 

 placed transversely in a Une are according to the description 

 situated one behind the other close to the base, so that I cannot 

 possibly identify the présent insect with Suffrian's species. 



CRYPTOCEPHALUS LEOPARDUS sp. n. 



Fulvous, part of the head, the outer joints of the antennse, the 

 sides of the breast and of the abdomen, black, thorax with two 

 oblique basai spots, impunctate, elytra strongly punctate-striate, 

 each elytron with 4 spots (1, 2, 1). 



Lenght 5 mill, 



Head finely pubescent and closely punctured, black, the space in 

 front of the eyes fulvous, clypeus fulvous, with a black spot, 

 antennaî extending below the middle of Ihe elytra, black, the lower 

 five joints fulvous, ail the joints, with the exception of the second 

 one, slender and nearly equal, basai joint short and stout; thorax 

 more than twice broader than long, narrowed anteriorly, the sides 

 feebly rounded, strongly deflexed, the surfMce entirely impunctate, 

 fulvous, the base with two oblique, elongate spots, approached at 

 their posterior ends, scutellum broad and short, fulvous, margined 

 with black; elytra nearly parallel, not very strongly punctate-striate, 

 the punctures rather liner at the base and apex, the interstices 

 impunctate, of the spots, one of subquadrate shape is placed at the 

 shoulders, one at the middle of the latéral margins, a third, opposite 

 the marginal spot near the suture and the fourth near the apex 

 below the suturai spot; under side finely pubescent, the sides of the 

 breast and abdomen, black, the extrême apex of the tibiae and the 

 tarsi, fuscous; prosternum strongly produced anteriorly into a 

 triangular point, the posterior angles acute, the margin concave. 



Hab. India (my collection). 



