94 INIr. Joseph S. Baly on the 
que anticis intus, fiilvis ; thoraee uitldo, tenniter ])iinc- 
lato, latcribus a})icc flavo-albis ; elytrls sat foi'titer coiispersc 
])nnctatis, pnnctis ]irope suturam, j^i'^sertim apicem versus, 
subseriatim dispositis. 
Muft. — Facie inter oculos macula bifurcata fulva ornata ; 
femoribus anterioribus quatuor antice fulvis. 
Fvem. — Facie inter oculos immaculata ; cljpeo macula 
viridi-CKndea, superficiem plus minus amplectente ornato. 
Var. A. Mas. — Macula inter oculos obsoleta. 
Var. B. Fvem. — Clypeo toto(margineinferioriexcepto) 
viridi-ca3ruleo. 
Long. 2— 2_L lin. 
Ilah. — Xagasaki, on Spanish Chestnut; apiiarently 
common. 
Head punctured, front impressed with a longitudinal 
groove ; antenna) in the $ eqiial in length to the body, 
shorter in the 2 ; four lower joints obscure fulvous, stained 
with ])iccous above, the rest black. Thorax twice as broad 
at the base as long ; sides roimdcd at the extreme base, 
thence ol)liquely converging and sliglitly rounded to the 
apex; disk convex, minutely, but not closely, punctured ; 
the interspaces shining, impunctate; extreme lateral margin 
edged on its anterior half with yellowish-white in the $ 
(in some specimens a faint trace of the same colour is seen 
along the whole length of the boi'der) ; in the $ the border 
is concolorous with the disk, the anterior angles alone 
being yellowish-Avhite. Scutellum subpentagonal. Elytra 
parallel, not broader than the base of the thorax, sides 
moderately lobed at the base ; above convex, conjointly 
excavated below the scutellum, coarsely punctured, the 
])uncturing on the inner disk indistinctly arranged in longi- 
tudinal stria} ; interspaces on the anterior half of the sur- 
face transversely wrinkled. Body beneath black, clothed 
Avith adjiressed hairs; coxre and the extreiue bases of the 
thighs fulvous in both sexes ; the extent of this colour 
varies greatly ; the coxjb frequently stained with piceous, 
anterior tibiae sometimes entirely black. 
Very closely allied to C. cfBruleKcens ; larger and more 
robust ; the colouring of the lower portion of the face and 
the form of the $ organ also different. 
Cryptocephalus fortunatus. 
Anguste oblongus, convexus, supra viridi-, aut ca-ruleo- 
metallicus, a3neo-micans, antennis nigris, his basi, facie 
inferior! plagaque bifurcata inter oculos flavis, thoracis 
