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Craspedophorus geniculatus Wied. Length 11:0 mm. 
Black: palpi testaceous, antennae, apex of femora, and tarsi 
brown, two spots on each elytron orange yellow. Pubescence 
short, greyish-yellow, but black on elytra (except over yellow 
spots). ‘ 
Head small (1:8 mm. wide), flat, moderately constricted behind 
eyes, not narrowed behind, coarsely punctate, clypeus and neck 
smooth and polished, frontal foveae shallow, eyes very prominent; 
antennae long and filiform, joint 3 about half as long again as 
succeeding joints, palpi very long and slender, last joint securi- 
form and obliquely truncate at apex; mentum very wide, sinus 
shallow, lobes short, rounded at sides and apex, mandibles sharply 
hooked at apex. Prothorax transverse (2-5 < 3-1 mm.), moderately 
convex, but a little explanate at sides, widest at middle, front 
angles rounded and inconspicuous, sides strongly and uniformly 
rounded, widely reflexed before hind angles, which are obtuse, but 
have a small acute tooth at the angle; median line and basal foveae 
well marked, the latter linear and slightly oblique, surface coarsely 
(more so than head) and more or less confluently punctate. Hlytra 
(4:25 x 7-0 mm,) moderately convex, parallel, punctate-striate, 
intervals convex, finely punctate; front spot behind shoulder, 
extending from margin to stria 3, tapering a little inwards, hind 
spot smaller, quadrate, covering intervals 4-8. Beneath, the sterna 
and base of ventral surface at sides are coarsely punctate, rest of 
ventral surface finely punctate, base of ventral segments distinctly 
crenulate, metepisterna longer than wide. Tarsi beneath without 
special clothing of hairs. Insect winged. 
In the form of the head and elytra hardly differing 
from C. mandarinellus Bates, but differing altogether in 
the shape of the prothorax, which in that species is much 
more narrowed in front than behind, widest considerably 
behind middle, with nearly rectangular hind angles, but 
without so acute a tooth, the surface more coarsely and 
much more confluently punctate. 
' Badister thoracicus Wied. Length 7-0 mm. 
Blue black, iridescent; prothorax, two fasciae on elytra, with 
suture, margin, and epipleurae, first two joints of antennae (rest 
fuscous), palpi, clypeus, labrum, sterna, and legs testaceous red. 
Head (1-5 mm. wide) moderately convex, smooth, opaque and 
very finely shagreened, clypeus with a pair of setiferous pores on 
hind margin, behind which the front is transversely channelled, 
eyes (for the genus) prominent, right mandible deeply emarginate. 
