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with eleven regular rows of punctures, the first row abbreviated, 

 interstices with a row of finer impressions ; each elytron with a 

 bright yellow patch from the base to beyond the middle and trans- 

 versely from the outer margin nearly to the suture, its inner edge 

 deeply emarginate. Beneath dark blue, abdomen with a double 

 row of patches of adpressed white hairs. 



Length 10 mm. 



Hub. Northern India : Manipur (Dolierty}. 



A large and handsome species, easily known by its coloration. 



152. Crioceris dohertyi, gp. n. 



Black, Elytra with a subquadrate flavous patch at base nearly 

 extending to middle. 



Head strongly constricted posteriorly ; intraocular space con- 

 vex, with a central groove, the area in front of the eyes finely 

 rugose ; antennae reaching to the base of the thorax, the terminal 

 joints strongly widened and flattened, third and fourth equal, 

 short. Thorax as broad as long, very slightly constricted at the 

 sides, the latter with a deep triangular cavity, bounded above by a 

 perpendicular ridge, anterior angles tuberculiform ; basal sulcus 

 only indicated ; the space behind with some fine transverse ridges ; 

 the disc with two double rows of fine punctures. Elytra narrowed 

 posteriorly, the basal portion raised, marked with five short rows 

 of deep punctures, the latter very widely placed, the rest of the 

 disc black ; entirely impunctate, with a large subquadrate flavous 

 patch at the base that does not extend to the suture nor quite to 

 the middle, its inner margin oblique. Legs robust, black. 



Length 13 mm. 



Hal). Assam : Patkai Mts. Type in Brit. Mus. 



Allied to C. adonis, Baly, but much larger and black instead of 

 blue, the elytra differently sculptured and the flavous patch smaller; 

 the antennae with broadly dilated terminal joints. The same differ- 

 ences in size and other details separate the insect from C. ornata, 

 Baly. 



153. Crioceris humeralis, Juc. Ann. Mus. Civ. Geneva, xxxii, 1892, 



p. 874. 



Piceous ; each elytron with a large subquadrate humeral flavous 

 spot. 



Head elongate, impunctate; the eyes deeply triangularly notched, 

 the lateral grooves deep; antennae not extending much beyond 

 the base of the elytra, dark chestnut or piceous, gradually 

 widened towards the apex, the basal four joints small, nearly 

 equal, shining, the others opaque, scarcely longer than broad. 

 Thorax slightly longer than broad, moderately constricted at the 

 sides, subcylindrical ; the disc with two rows of fine punctures on 

 the middle. Scutellum small. Elytra with the basal portion 

 strongly raised, the punctures fine, much stronger in the first three 



