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narrowly flavous, the dise with two black spots, not closely placed, 

 scutellum flavous, margined with black, elytra with straight rows 

 of deep punctures, visible to the apex, not depressed below the 

 base, the interstices smooth and impunctate, flavous, the extrême 

 basai and suturai margin and a broad latéral stripe from the base 

 to the apex, black, elytral epipleurae flavous at the base, underside 

 black, that of the thorax and the legs, fulvous, prosternum 

 strongly produced and hoUowed out in front. 



Hah. Belgaum, S. Bombay. 



I cannot refer this species to 0. circumdtictus Suffr. which it 

 nearly resembles in most particulars, especially in the coloration of 

 the thorax and elytra, as that species is described with entirely 

 fulvous antennae and finely wrinkled elytral interstices given the 

 latter a dull appearance, of this there is no trace in any of the spé- 

 cimens before me and as moreover Ceylon is the « habitat i> of 

 Suffrian's insect, the présent species is no doubt distinct; G. para- 

 silicus in its black varieties also resembles closely the varieties of 

 G. inconstans but h:is a finely punctured thorax and elytral inter- 

 stices, fulvous antennae and underside, the scutellum and elytral 

 epipleurae remain also constantly fulvous (according to SufFrian) 

 which is not the case hère as some of the black spécimens hâve 

 also thèse parts of the same colour; black varieties of G. sangui- 

 noleatus Suif, also differ in the flnely wrinkled and opaque elytral 

 interstices and in the fulvous epipleurae, breast etc. 



Cryptocephalus rufulus Suffr. 

 Three spécimens from Belgaum, a maie and two females agrée 

 very nearly with Suffrian's description of this species, but in the 

 females, the antennae are entirely fulvous and their gênerai size is 

 two lines ; the first joint of the anterior tarsi in the maie is much 

 widened, but the colour of the tarsi is not blackish as Suffrian says 

 but entirely fulvous in the spécimens before me. It may be that 

 they represent another closely allied species. 



Cryptocephalus belgaumensis n. sp. 



Pale fulvous, the apical joints of the antennae and the sides of 

 the breast, black, thorax finely strigose, black, the anterior and 

 latéral margins, flavous, elytra strongly punctate-striate, black, 

 a transverse band at the base, another oblique band near the apex 

 and a spot at the sides below the shoulders, flavous. 



Lenght 1 i/i-l i/a line. 



Head rather strongly and closely punctured, pale fulvous, eyes 

 broadly emarginate, clypeus closely punctured, flavous, antennae 



