172 CHEYSOMELID^E. 



joints fulvous, first joint subquadrate. Thorax twice as broad as 

 long, sides straight, posterior angles distinct, basal margin feebly 

 lobed, surface very smooth, with two large black spots placed 

 transversely. Scutellum black, the apex sometimes fulvous. Elytra 

 very finely punctured, the punctures only visible under a strong 

 lens, rather regularly arranged in rows ; the spots large, sub- 

 quadrate, the basal spot not quite extending to basal margin, the 

 other behind the middle sometimes slightly constricted at its 

 inner margin. Anterior legs more elongate than the others, the 

 first joint of their tarsi as long as the following two united. 



Fig. 68. Ceratobasis nair. 



$ . Of more oblong-ovate shape, the head smaller, the basal 

 joint of antennae more slender, thorax shorter, more narrowed in 

 front, the legs less elongate and the tarsi equal. 



Var. a. Eyes with black orbits, thorax entirely fulvous. 



Var. 6. Head as in var. a. Elytra with a humeral spot, the 

 other markings as in the type. 



Var. c. Elytra black, narrowly margined with fulvous. 



Length 4-4| mm. 



Hob. Bombay ; Malabar ; Nilgiris. 



A common and rather widely distributed Indian species ; var. c 

 has been obtained on the Nilgiris and was not previously 

 known. 



297. Ceratobasis kcenigii, Fab. (Cryptocephalus) Syst. Ent. .1775, 

 p. Ill; Hiibncr (Cryptocephalus), Naturforscher, xxiv, 1789, 

 p. 41, pi. 2, fig. 5 ; Fnbr. (Clythra) Ent. Syst., Suppl. 1798, p. 114 ; 

 Lacord. (Clythra-Ceratobasis) Mon. Phytoph. ii, 1848, p. 364. 



Fulvous ; breast, abdomen, labrum, two spots on head, and 

 antennae (base excepted) black. Elytra with two bluish-black 

 spots at base, the outer one the smallest. 



Bather shorter and more cylindrical than C. nair. Head very 

 smooth, a spot near inner margin of eyes black ; clypeus not 

 separated, rather deeply emarginate ; eyes ovate, nearly entire ; 



