74 CHEYSOMELIDJE. 



specimen available for examination, wanting). Thorax not longer 

 than broad, very moderately constricted, the anterior portion 

 broadly rounded, only slightly prominent, bounded at the sides by 

 a short transverse sulcus, the basal grooves shallow, placed rather 

 close to the base, the surface with two rows of punctures on the 

 middle. Scutellum nearly black, covered with yellow pubescence. 

 Elytra without any basal depression, the punctures moderately 

 strong at the base, rather fine below the latter but distinct up to 

 the apex, rather distantly placed, the interstices flat. Body 

 beneath clothed with dense golden-yellow pubescence ; the legs 

 dark fulvous ; the apex of the posterior and the upper edge of 

 the anterior femora piceous. 



Lenytli 6 mm. 



JIab. India. 



A rather small species of dark brown colour, the elytra without 

 distinct depression, the thorax without prominent angles and the 

 legs bicolorous. 



142. Crioceris seminigra, Jac. Ann. Mm. Genova, xxvii, 1889, p. 153. 



Black beneath ; above fulvous or with anterior portion of elytra 

 black. 



Head strongly constricted behind the eyes, lateral grooves deep, 

 vertex of the head with a narrow central groove ; eyos deeply 

 notched ; antenna extended to just below the base of the elytra 

 in the male, shorter in the female, the basal four joints short, the 

 next and following joints suddenly and strongly transversely 

 widened. Thorax scarcely longer than broad, deeply and broadly 

 excavated at the sides, the cavity not bounded by a ridge above, 

 anterior angles rounded, with a minute tubercle, the basal sulcus 

 shallow, the disc with a single ro\v of fine punctures at middle. 

 Scutellum rather elongate. Elytra with a feeble depression beloxv 

 the base, strongly punctured at the base, more or less finely 

 posteriorly, a subquadrate space below the shoulders impunctate. 

 Beneath and the legs fulvous, more or less marked with or nearly 

 all black. 



Hob. Burma : Bhamo, Teinzo, Eangoon ; Tenasserim : Meetan. 



Independent of the coloration, this species may be known by the 

 strongly enlarged fifth and following joints of the antennae, which 

 is much more pronounced in it than it is in C. semipunctata or 

 C. impressa ; these organs are also very short in the female, scarcely 

 extended to the base of the thorax, and only slightly longer in 

 the male. 



143. Crioceris locuples, Clark, App. Cat. Phytoph. 1806, p. 64. 



Dark brown ; antennae fulvous. 



Head strongly constricted posteriorly, the vertex with a shallow 

 groove and a few punctures ; antennae very long and slender, 

 the third joint much shorter than the fourth, the following 

 joints elongate, cy indrical. Thorax somewhat longer than 



