82 CHRYSOMEL1D.S. 



Head black, impressed with a central fovea, the space between 

 the antennae rufous. Thorax rufo-flavous, slightly constricted at 

 the base, the middle and the anterior angles with some punctures. 

 Scutellum black. Elytra parallel, flavous ; of the black markings 

 a spot is placed on the shoulders, a pear-shaped elongate mark 

 from below the humeral spot to behind the middle, another small 

 spot below the humeral spot, and one near the apex of each 

 elytron. The antennas black, short and robust. 



Length 6 mm. 



Hab. India. Type in Brit. Mus. 



A well-marked species, easy to recognize by the peculiar pattern 

 of the elytra. 



158. Crioceris multimaculata, Jac. Ann. Soc. Ent. Self/, xlii, 1898, 

 p. 185. 



Flavous ; antennae and breast black, head with a black spot ; 

 elytra flavous, a sutural stripe, widened before and after the 

 middle, a humeral spot, another below the shoulders, a round spot 

 behind the middle, and another near the apex, black ; tibiae at apex 

 and tarsi black. 



Head fulvous ; the vertex with a black spot, impunctate, the 

 lower portion pubescent; antennae black, short and stout, the 

 terminal joints strongly thickened and widened. Thorax sub- 

 cylindrical, constricted near the base, the basal sulcus shallow, the 

 sides rounded and widened at the middle, the disc fulvous with one 

 row of punctures and others near the anterior angles. Scutellum 

 black. Elytra flavous, strongly and deeply punctate-striate, the 

 suture at the middle black, widened into a spot anteriorly and 

 posteriorly ; a spot on the shoulders, followed by a smaller one 

 near the lateral margins, a round spot behind the middle and 

 another larger one near the apex, black ; sides of the breast, the 

 knees, apex of the tibise and the tarsi black. 



Length 2 mm. 



Hab. Bengal : Mandar. 



Allied to G. nigro-ornata, Clark (nigropicta, Clk.), but flavous 

 beneath instead of black, and without the pear-shaped spot below 

 the shoulders, also with an extra spot behind the middle, the head 

 pubescent, the size generally smaller. 



159. Crioceris cardoni, sp. n. 



Entirely black. 



Head rugose-punctate and finely pubescent ; the vertex with a 

 short but deep longitudinal groove ; eyes very large and promi- 

 nent ; antennae short, the terminal joints strongly thickened and 

 widened, broader than long, the basal four joints shining, the 

 others pubescent, third joint longer than the fourth. Thorax 

 subglobose, very slightly longer than broad, the anterior angles 

 rounded, the middle widened at the sides, the base very slightly 

 constricted, with a narrow transverse groove, placed close to the 



