72 CHBYSOHELIDA'. 



feeble and an anterior sulcus is also generally absent; other 

 characters as in Lema. 



Type. C. merdigera, Fabr., from Europe. 



Range. Universally distributed. 



SECTION I. 



Above pale or dark fulvous, or with partly fulvous and 

 black elytra. 



138. Crioceris malabarica, Jac. Ann. Soc.Ent. Eelg. xlviii, 1904, p. 381- 



Dark fulvous ; beneath black, knees obscure fuscous. 



Head deeply constricted behind the eyes, sparingly punctured 

 on the vertex ; eyes very deeply notched, this portion and the 

 space in front pubescent, lateral grooves very deep ; antennae 

 dark fulvous, extended to the base of the elytra only, terminal 

 joints scarcely longer than broad. Thorax subquadrate, moderately 

 constricted at the middle, the surface with a few punctures near 

 the anterior margin and a single row on the middle. Scutellum 

 narrow, fulvous. Elytra reddish-fulvous, with a shallow transverse 

 depression below the base, finely punctate-striate except near 

 the shoulders where the punctures are absent, the puncturation 

 much stronger at the base near the suture, the lateral margins 

 strongly raised. Underside black, clothed with yellow pubescence ; 

 legs fulvous, knees darker. 



Length 9 mm. 



Hal. Malabar. 



Separated by the regular puncturing of the elytra from those 

 species with only partly regular sculpture ; also by the different 

 colour of the underside and legs from C. badia, Lac. and 

 C. omopliloides, Lac. 



139. Crioceris impressa, Fabr. Mant. Ins. i, 1787, p. 88; id. Ent. Syst. 

 'i, pt. 2, 1792, p. 6 ; Olivier, Enc. Meth. vi, 1791, p. 197 ; id. Entom. 

 vi, 1808, p. 730, pi. 1 , fig. 4 ; Lacord. Mon. Phytoph. i, 1845, p. 562; 

 Baly, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1865, p. 32. 



Var. castanea, Lacord. Mon. Phytoph. i, 1845, p. 564. 

 Var. crassicornis, Oliv. Ent. vi, 1808, p. 731, pi. 1, fig. 6. 

 Var. oinophloides, Lacord. Mon. Phytoph. i, 1845, p. 564. 



Beneath fulvous or piceous with silvery patches ; thorax fulvous 

 or black ; elytra fulvous or flavous. 



This is one of the most variable and widely distributed of all 

 the species of the Chrysomelida>., scarcely two specimens are ever 

 alike, and this does not only apply to coloration but also to 

 sculpture. Some specimens are much narrower than others ; the 

 head is either fulvous or black ; the antennae are sometimes much 

 shorter than is the rule, also equally variable in colour as the 

 other parts ; the puncturation of the thorax is generally rather 

 close over the middle of the disc, but occasionally there are only 



