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Cryptocephalus dimidiatipennis n. sp. 



Black, the cljpeus and the basai joints af the antennae, flavous, 

 thorax impunctate, elytra strongly punctate-striate the anterior 

 half flavous, the posterior one black, legs black. 



Length 2 Unes. 



Head finely and irregularly punctured, black, the clypeus 

 flavous, impunctate, labrum black, antennae black, the lower 

 four joints flavous, thorax scarcelj twice as broad as long, the 

 sides moderately rounded and narrowly margined, the surface 

 impunctate, black, shining; scutellum black, not longer than 

 broad, its apex pointed; elytra deeply and regularlj punctate- 

 striate, the punctures closelj placed and distinct to the apex, 

 the interstices convex at the sides, impunctate, the basai half, 

 in shape of a broad, laterally widened band flavous, the posterior 

 portion black, underside and legs black, the base of the femora 

 and that of the tibiae sometimes^flavous ; prosternum subquadrate, 

 scarcelj punctured. 



Eab. Munghpu, India. 



This species agrées better with C. deficiens Siiff". on account of 

 the elytral pattern, but the interstices are neither rugose but 

 convex at the sides and the legs are black, not fulvous, the anterior 

 margin of the black colour is separated from the flavous portion by 

 a strongly oblique line, the highest point of v/hich is placed at the 

 suturai margin. 



Two spécimens are contained in my collection which I believe 

 I received from the Calcutta Muséum. 



CHLAMYDiE 

 Chlamys orientalis n. sp. 



Obscure fulvous, thorax more or less flavous, strongly elevated, 

 rugosely punctured and tuberculate, elytra deeply punctured, each 

 with about ten pointed tubercules, those at the apex larger. 



Lenght li/2-2 lines. 



Of parallel and subcylindrical shape, the head flavous, deeply 

 and closely punctured, the eyes deeply notched, antennse only 

 extending to the middle of the thorax, entirely flavous, the last six 

 joints strongly transverse, thorax with tlie posterior half strongly 

 gibbose, the anterior portion flavous and lighter than the other 

 parts of the upper surface, the gibbosity chanelled ad the top 

 forming two short ridges, the rest of the surface covered with 

 numerous small and blunt tubercles, ail the interstices reticulate ar 



