78 CHRYSOMELIDvE. 



lateral constrictions ; on each side in front is a short transverse 

 impression. Scutellurn subtrigonal. Elytra much broader than 

 the thorax, more than four times its length, slightly sinuate on 

 the sides below the shoulders, each elytron with eleven rows of 

 distinct punctures, the first abbreviated. Body beneath clothed 

 with adpressed yellowish-white hairs. 



Length 9 mm. 



llab. Northern India. 



Differs from C. semicostata in the flattened elytral interstices and 

 in the different structure of the thorax and its anterior tubercle. 



SECTION III. 

 Elytra blue or blade, with flavous patches or spots. 



150. Crioceris quadripustulata, Fdbr. Mant. Ins. i, 1787, p. 88; 



Oliv. Entom. vi, 1808, p. 729, pi. 1, tig. 2a,b; Lacord. Mon. 

 Phijtoph. i, 1845, p. 558 ; Baly, Tram. Ent. Soc. (3) iv, 1865, p. 28. 

 Attelabus speciosa, Fabr. Ent. Si/st. i, pt. 2, 1792, p. 384. 



Black ; elytra with a large subquadrate patch at base and a 

 transverse spot near apex, flavous. 



Head strongly constricted posteriorly, the vertex bituberculate, 

 impunctate ; antennae black, reach to the base of the elytra, second 

 joint moniliform, third and fourth short and equal, shining, the 

 following subquadrately elongate and widened. Thorax black or 

 piceous, slightly longer than broad, moderately constricted, the 

 anterior angles tuberculate, the sides deeply excavated; surface 

 subyclindrical but rather broad, sometimes with a few minute 

 punctures. Scutellum black. Elytra black, with a single row of 

 punctures near the suture and another short row near the first at 

 the base, the rest of the surface impunctate; the basal portion raised 

 and occupied by a large subquadrate flavous patch, another more 

 transverse band placed below the middle. 



Length 10 mm. 



Hab. Tenasserim ; Siam ; Java. 



Conspicuous by its large size and by the two flavous elytral 

 patches. The insect is probably distributed over other parts of 

 India. 



151. Crioceris adonis, Baly, Tramt. Ent. Soc. (2) v, 1859, p. 150. 



Cserulean blue ; antennae black ; elytra each with large flavous 

 patch from base to beyond middle. 



Deep metallic blue. Head with a deep fovea anteriorly; an- 

 tennae nearly as long as the body, filiform. Thorax as broad 

 as long, constricted at the sides, above smooth and shining, finely 

 punctured, with some more regular rows of punctures at the 

 middle of the disc, the base with a shallow fovea at middle. Elytra 

 very much broader than the thorax, four times as long, indistinctly 

 transversely depressed on the suture below the base ; each elytron 



