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two-thirds the length of the body, black, the lower five joints 

 fulvous, third and fourth joints equal, thorax rather more than 

 twice as broad as long, the sides nearly straight, narrowed in 

 front, the posterior angles strongly produced downwards and 

 pointed, the dise black, the anterior margin very narrowly, the 

 sides slightiy more broadly and a narrow central stripe dividing 

 the black colour anteriorly, flavous, the sides entirely covered 

 with very fine longitudinal strigae which gradiially change into fine 

 punctures at the base, scutellum scarcely longer than broad, black, 

 its apex truncate, the base with a fovea, elytra net depressed 

 below the base, deeply punctate-striate, the punctures much finer 

 towards the apex, the interstices longitudinally costate at the 

 sides, black, à transverse band at the base (leaving the basai 

 margin black) not extending to the latéral margins, an elongate 

 spot below the shoulders and an oblique medially constricted band 

 near the apex, flavous ; underside and legs fulvous, sides of the 

 breast piceous or black. 



Eab. Belgaum, S. Bombay. July. 



This small species greatly resembles in its markings G. angulato- 

 faciatus Jac. from Burmah but may be at once distinguished by 

 the sculpturing of the thorax which is not very frequently found in 

 other species, the elytra may also be described as flavous with a 

 transverse band at the middle, widened at the suture, the latéral 

 and apical margins as well as the extrême base, black, in some 

 spécimens the black latéral stripe includes a flavous spot below the 

 shoulders, in others this band is absent and only a black spot on 

 the shoulders remains, so that the flavous basai band is not inter- 

 rupted at the sides as in the type. 



Cryptocephalus bombayensis n. sp. 



Black, the basai joints of the antennae and the legs fulvous, tho- 

 rax very strongly and closely punctured, the anterior and latéral 

 margins flavous, scutellum fulvous, elytra very deeply punctate- 

 striate, flavous, the base, connected with a suturai lozenge-shaped 

 band, abbreviated at the apex, black. 



Length 1 i/a line. 



Head piceous or black, closely and nearly rugosely-punctate, a 

 small more or less distinct spot above the base of the antennae and 

 on the clypeus, flavous, antennae extending to the middle of theely- 

 tra, black, the lower five joints flavous, not very elongate, rather 

 short ; thorax with rounded sides, very strongly and closely punc- 

 tured, the punctures at the sides more closely placed than at the 

 middle and with the interstices rugose and convex, those at the 



