CRYPTOCEPHALUS. 197 



Distinguished by the entirely black thorax and the single elytral 

 black band, abruptly constricted at the sides. In some specimens 

 the anterior legs and sides of the abdomen are more or less 

 flavous. 



344. Cryptocephalus simulans, sp. n. 



Head, sides of breast, legs and part of abdomen black ; thorax 

 black, anterior margin and sides fulvous ; elytra fulvous, a humeral 

 spot and a broad transverse band at middle strongly angulate 

 anteriorly, black. 



Head very finely pubescent and punctured, depressed at middle ; 

 eyes triangularly emarginate at middle ; 

 anterior edge of clypeus and labrum 

 fulvous ; antennae slender, black, basal 

 four joints flavous, basal joint above 

 and the others black, terminal joints 

 not thickened. Thorax more than twice 

 as broad as long, sides strongly obliquely 

 narrowed in front, nearly straight ; sur- 

 face impunctate, the sides rather broadly 

 and the anterior margin very narrowly 

 fulvous, rest of disc black, the lateral 

 edge of this colour indented at middle. 

 Scutellum trigonal, fulvous, margined 

 with black. Elytra elongate, cylindrical, 

 p- 74 strongly punctate-striate, the punctures 



Cryptocephalus simulans. finer at base and apex ; the humeral spot 

 large, extending to the sides, the trans- 

 verse black band with a slight bluish gloss, produced at the 

 suture almost to the scutellum, abruptly and rather deeply con- 

 stricted at sides, posterior edge concave. Breast' at middle, first 

 abdominal segments and extreme base of femora fulvous. Pro- 

 sternum subquadrate, posterior margin deeply concave, the angles 

 strongly produced. 

 Length 6 mm. 



Hah. Travancore : Wallardi. Type in Coll. Jacoby. 

 Very similar in coloration of the elytra to 0. unifasciatus, 

 Jac., but differs as follows : labrum fulvous, thorax much shorter 

 and more transverse, sides and margin fulvous, black elytral band 

 differently shaped, and humeral spot larger. The species was also 

 obtained in a different locality. 



.'345. Cryptocephalus posticalis, Jac. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxix, 1895, 



Cryptocephalus posticalis 



p. 263. 



Black ; head fulvous at sides ; thorax fulvous, with two 

 confluent spots ; elytra fulvous, a transverse spot at base and the 

 apical portion black. 



