196 CHRYSOMELIIXE. 



marked with a few fine punctures ; mandibles black ; palpi flavous ; 

 antennae slender, basal five joints flavous, rest black, third joint 

 distinctly shorter than fourth, fifth slightly longer. Thorax scarcely 

 twice as broad as long, sides rounded, strongly narrowed in front ; 

 surface scarcely perceptibly punctured, the sides marked by a 

 broad flavous deeply emarginate band at middle and a central 

 longitudinal stripe of the same colour, the latter pointed at end, 

 not quite extending to base. Scuteilum black, apex rather 

 broadly rounded. Elytra strongly and rather closely punctate- 

 striate, punctures finer but distinct at apex, a transverse spot at 

 base near scutellum, another at apex and two more rounded spots 

 at middle, the outer one close to margin, the inner slightly lower 

 nearer suture, all the spots flavous. Pygidium finely punctured, 

 black, margined with flavous. Prosternum and last abdominal 

 segment flavous, rest of underside black. 



c? . Elytra more strongly punctured, interstices slightly convex. 



Length 4-5 mm. 



Hab. Himalayas ; Assam : Khasi Hills. 



Bather variable in regard to the markings, some specimens have 

 some of the flavous elytral spots nearly confluent. The shape of 

 the flavous bands of the thorax likewise varies in width, and the 

 elytral puncturation is deeper in the d 1 than in the $ ; the <3 is 

 also smaller in size. 



Elytra flavous ivitli both spots and bands or spots only. 



343. Cryptocephalus unifasciatus, Jac. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova> 

 xxvii, 1889, p. 161. 



Black ; basal joints of antennas fulvous ; elytra flavous, a spot 

 on shoulders, a broad transverse band at middle and sutural and 

 lateral margins posteriorly black. 



Head with a few fine punctures at middle, deeply transversely 

 depressed between eyes ; the latter broadly subtriangularly emar- 

 ginate ; clypeus rather closely and distinctly punctured ; basal four 

 joints of antennae fulvous, rest black, third joint slightly shorter 

 than fourth, following joints elongate and slender. Thorax nearly 

 subcylindrical, very strongly convex, sides deeply deflexed, lateral 

 margins nearly straight ; surface entirely impunctate, deep black, 

 very shining. Scutellum not longer than broad, sides rounded, 

 apex rather pointed, surface impunctate. Elytra broadly sub- 

 cylindrical, without depression below base, finely and regularly 

 punctate-striate, interstices flat, with a few fine punctures here 

 and there ; basal portion to about one-third of its length flavous. 

 followed by a broad transverse black band that extends to behind 

 the middle, its anterior margin abruptly obliquely narrowed at sides, 

 posterior margin straight ; apex of each elytron with a transverse 

 flavous spot. Beneath and legs black or partly fulvous. 



Length 4 mm. 



Hab. Burma : Bhamo, Karennee. 



