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wrinkled without black margin, C.fatuns Suflfr. differs in the pale 

 straw colour, the absence of the thoracic spots, in the fînely 

 punctured elytral interstices and in the absence of the latéral 

 costaB. G.fraternus Duv. is again closely ailied but is described 

 with triangularly widened terminal joints of the antennae, an enti- 

 rely fulvous thorax and without costate elytral latéral interstices 

 also with a difFerently formed prosternum, in one spécimen before 

 me the antennae are entirely fulvous. 



Cryptocephalus Lefevrei n. sp. 



Black, the head, basai joints of the antennas and the anterior 

 legs, fulvous, thorax impunctate, elytra finely punctate-striate, 

 the basai portion fulvous, a spot on the shoulder and the posterior 

 two-thirds, black. 



Length 1 1/2 -2 lines. 



Head fulvous, impunctate at the vertex with a sraall round fovea 

 between the eyes, the latter very long, broadiy emarginate, the 

 space between the antennae with a few fine punctures, labrum 

 black, margined with fulvous. mandibles black, antennae black, 

 the lower four joints and the base of the fifth, fulvous, terminal 

 joints cylindrical, scarceiy widened j thorax twice as broad as long, 

 the sides nearly straight, narrowed in front, the posterior angles 

 pointed, the surface entirely impunctate, shining, black, scutellum 

 as broad as long, rather raised, the apex broadiy rounded; elytra 

 regularly and finely punctate-striate, the interstices smooth and 

 impunctate, a transverse band, occupying the basai third portion 

 and widened at the sides, fulvous, the rest of the dise and a small 

 spot on the shoulder, black, the underside, pygidium, posterior 

 femora and the apex of the tibise as well as ail the tarsi, black, the 

 four anterior legs, fulvous. 



Hab. Belgaum, S. Bombay. 



The nearest ailied species to the présent one seems to be C. defl- 

 ciens SufF. but this author described his type unfortunately from a 

 single spécimen without a head, but even the description of the 

 other parts does not agrée with the species before me ; in G. defi- 

 ciens there is a black shoulder spot but the posterior half of the 

 elytra are described as black not the two-third of the length, and 

 the interstices between the punctures are finely rugose which is 

 not the case in C. Lefevrei, the colour of the legs and the tarsi 

 also differ, there are half a dozend spécimens contained in the pré- 

 sent collection whih only difier in size. 



I give hère the description of another closely ailied species. 



