96 Mr. Joseph S. Baly on the 
yellow ; anteiinre longer than the body, slender, filiform, 
third joint distinctly shorter than the fourth, four basal 
joints yelloAv, stained al)ove with piceous ; labrum shining 
l)lack; jaws piceous. Thorax nearly twice as broad at 
the base as long ; sides very slightly sinuate in the middle, 
obliquely converging from base to apex, more quickly 
converging at the extreme apex, the outer margin faintly 
and irregularly notched, anterior angles armed with 
a short, slightly reflexed tooth ; upper surface convex, 
covered Avith large deeply impressed punctures ; lateral 
edge broadly margined, its svu'face rugose. Scutellum 
narrowly triangular, smooth, impressed with a few deep 
punctures. Elytra deeply punctate-striate, interspaces 
smooth, slightly thickened towards the apex, impressed 
here and there with very faint irregular stria\ 
Cryptocephalus aviatus. 
Anguste oblongus, convexus, obscure vii'idi-ca^n-uleus, 
metallicus, subtus nigro-creruleus, facie inferiori flavo, 
antennis nigris, basi obscure fulvis, ore piceo ; thorace 
convexo, disco utrinque pone medium late sed leviter ex- 
cavato, fortiter punctato, punctis ad apicem et latera ver- 
sus subcrebre — disco magis remote — dispositis; elytris 
fortiter j^unctato-striatis, interstitiis leviter elevatis, irregu- 
lariter elevato-strigosis. 
Long. 2 lin. 
//«Z». — Japan, a single specimen, collected by Mr. 
Moor. 
Head above the insertion of the antenna} deeply punc- 
tured, front impressed with a longitudinal groove ; cly- 
peus and the face on either side flavous ; antenna? equal 
in length to the body, filiform, the third joint scarcely 
two-thirds the length of the fourth ; four lower joints 
obscure fulvous, stained Avith piceous above. Thorax 
twice as broad at the base as long; sides rounded and 
converging from just before the base to the apex, anterior 
angles armed with an obtuse tooth, lateral margin entire ; 
above convex, deeply but less coarsely punctured than 
C. permodestuf!, the punctures somewhat crowded at the 
apex and on the sides, more distant on the disk, hinder 
half of the latter broadly but faintly excavated on cither 
side the medial line ; lateral border broadly margined; its 
surface rugose. Elytra deeply punctate-striate, inter- 
spaces slightly thickened, covered with coarse ill-defined 
irrcffular transverse wrinkles. 
