CRYPTOCEPHALUS. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Body short, robust, cylindric ; head vertical ; 

 antennae inserted between the eyes, simple, fili- 

 form, more than half the length of the body; 

 palpi terminating with a conic-cylindric joint, 

 maxillary palpi very apparent. 



OBSERVATIONS. 



Many of this group are agreeably ornamented 

 with coloured spots and lines. They were 

 mingled with the Chrysomel^ by Linne, from 

 which they may be known by the more cylin- 

 drical form of the body, and by the abrupt de- 

 flection of the head. In these characters, the 

 present genus corresponds with Clythra, to 

 which it is more closely allied than to any other ; 

 but the antennae of Clythra are short and ser- 

 rated, instead of being long, simple, and filiform, 

 as in the genus before us. The genus Crypto- 

 cephalus was established by Geoffroy, and has 

 been adopted by the greater number of entomo- 



PLATE XXVIII. 



