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rows near the suture, but disappearing altogether near the apex S 

 a few widely-placed punctures also lie along the lateral margin ; 

 the humeral flavous spot extends downwards nearly to the middle 

 but not to the suture : this patch is entirely impuuctate and sur- 

 rounded by a darker margin. Legs clothed with fine yellowish 

 pubescence. 



Length 6 mm. 



ffab. Burma: Karennee. 



Somewhat resembles C. scapularis, Balv. 



SECTION IV. 

 Elytra pale ivitli blade transverse bands or spots, or entirely black. 



154. Crioceris cruciata, Over. Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 41 ; Lacord. Mon. 

 Phytoph, i, 1845, p. 557. 



Piceous or rufous : sides of breast narrowly black. Elytra pale 

 flavous, suture and narrow transverse 

 band at middle black. 



Elongate ; the head finely rugose and 

 pubescent, rufous ; lateral sulci very shal- 

 low ; antennae robust, rufous, third and 

 fourth joints nearly quadrate, short and 

 equal, following' joints subquadrately 

 elougate. Thorax subcylindrical, slightly 

 longer than broad, obsoletely sulcate be- 

 fore and in the middle'very finely rugose, 

 the surface uneven, rufous, basal margin 

 sometimes blackish. Elytra flavous, the 

 basal portion raised, the disc obsoletely 

 longitudinally sulcate ; sometimes im- 

 punctate, the suture and a transverse 

 regular band narrowly black. Sides of 

 the meso- and metasternum black, rest 

 of under surface and the legs rufous. 



Lewjili 8-10 mm. 



Hob. Nilgiris. 



Easily distinguished by the narrow 

 cross-like markings of the elytra and 

 their pale flavous ground-colour. 



Fig. 12. Crioceris cruciata. 



155. Crioceris fasciatipennis, Jac. Ann. Soc. Ent. Bdy. xlviii. 1904, 

 p. 381. 



Flavous ; the head, antennae and legs piceous ; thorax with the 

 base black : elytra flavous, a narrow transverse band at the middle 

 and a small spot near the apex, black. 



Head piceous, impunctate, pubescent near the eyes ; antenme 



