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latter are much stronger at the base near the suture, interstices 

 flat,thelateraImarginsstronglyraised,underside black,clolhed with 

 yellow pubescence, legs fulvous, the knees more or less darkened. 



Hah. Malabar (my collection). 



I cannot refer this species of which I received two spécimens 

 from M. Donckier in Paris, to any described one; the regularly 

 punctured elytra prevent it from being mistaken for any of those in 

 which the latter are only partially punctate; C. hadia Lac. and 

 C. consentanea Lac. hâve a fulvous under side and black legs, aiso 

 irregularly punctured elylra at the base; C. omophloides Lac, is des- 

 cribed as having the terminal jointsof the antennsescarcely widened 

 and nearly cylindrical which is certalnly not the case hère, the legs 

 are also described as black. 



CRYPTOCEPHALUS SUBGOSTATUS sp. n. 



Testaceous below, above fulvous, head closely punctured, thorax 

 impunctate, with two black spots, elytra strongly punctate-striale, 

 the interstices more or less longitudinally convex. 



Length 5-7 mill. 



Head flavous or testaceous, closely semirugose punctate through- 

 out, labrum smooth, mandibles nearly black, antennœ entirely 

 fulvous, the third joint longer than the fourlh, terminal joints 

 widened, sublriangular, last joint with an additional pointed appen- 

 dage, anterior edge of the clypeus but slighlly concave, thorax 

 strongly deflexed at the sides, narrowed in front, the poslerior 

 angles acute but not much produced, the dise impunctate, fulvous, 

 with two black spots, more widely separated from each other than 

 each of them from the latéral margins, scutellum rather broad, 

 flavous, margined with black, elytra not depressed below the base, 

 fulvous, strongly punctate-striate, the punctures much finer near 

 the apex, the interstices slighlly convex, impunctate, below and 

 the legs pale flavous, the sides of the breast strongly punctured, 

 prosternum produced into a long projection anteriorly, deeply 

 bilobed posteriorly; pygidium flavous, finely rugose. 



Hah. Anamalais; May by beating. 



Closely allied to several similarly coloured Indian species, notably 

 C. fraternus Duviv. and C. Andrewesi Jac. but distinguished from the 

 first named by the scarcely emarginate clypeus, the very closely 

 punctured head and the structure of Ihe prosternum, from the 

 other species, by the rallier convex elytral interstices, the colour 

 of the antennse and the entirely flavous under side, also by the 

 prosternum being pointed anteriorly instead of broadly rounded ; 

 C. fatuits Suflr. has no tiioracic spots, an elongate, triangular 



