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widened, terminal joint with pointed appendage. Thorax strongly 

 transverse and convex, sides widened at middle, rounded ; surface 

 impunctate, anterior margin narrowly, anterior half of lateral 

 margins more broadly, bright flavous, this colour forms an angle 

 with the black portion at sides. Scutellum elongate, with longi- 

 tudinal groove at base. Elytra rather strongly punctate-striate, 

 longitudinally depressed within the shoulders, puncturation nearly 

 obsolete at apex, the flavous band narrowed at the sides but ex- 

 tending nearly to base at sutural portion, its upper edge oblique, 

 lower one strongly sinuate, the apical spot narrowly edged with 

 black. Body and legs black ; upper portion of breast, prosternum 

 and extreme base of posterior femora flavous ; anterior portion of 

 prosternum acutely produced. 



Lenyth 6 mm. 



Hal). Burma : Karennee. Type in Genoa Mus. 



354. Cryptocephalus quadrillium, Suffr. Monoy., Linn. Ent. xiv, 



1860, p. 21. 



Dark red ; two spots on thorax and the elytra black, the latter 

 with two large round red spots (1.1). 



" Of elongate shape, narrowed posteriorly ; head finely punc- 

 tured, shining red, a spot below base of antennae black; antennae 

 with basal joints fulvous, rest black, third joint twice, fourth, 

 three times longer than second. Thorax short, posterior margin 

 serrate, narrowly black, median lobe short, surface very shining, 

 impunctate, the two spots placed at middle, close together. 

 Scutellum red, triangular. Elytra about two and a half times longer 

 than the thorax, humeral elevations round, large, lateral lobes 

 strongly produced ; surface black, finely punctate-striate, more or 

 less indistinct near apex, reflexed margin of epipleurse at base, and 

 two well-defined spots, one before, the other behind the middle, 

 red ; the first spot somewhat transverse, the suture in front of the 

 spot with a small elongate mark, lower spot round, close to suture, 

 only separated by a narrow black margin/' (Svffnan.} 



Length 4| mm. 



Hob. Madras. 



Described by Suffrian from a specimen without abdomen ; no 

 similarly marked species has come under my observation. 



355. Cryptocephalus sikhimensis, sp. n. 



Black; head and basal joints of the antenna pale flavous, 

 thorax and legs darker ; elytra black, apex pale flavous. 



Subcylindrical and parallel-sided. Head impunctate, yellowish- 

 white ; eyes very broadly emarginate ; antennae black, extending 

 beyond middle of elytra, basal four joints flavous, third and 

 fourth joints equal, shorter than fifth, terminal joints slightly 

 thickened. Thorax twice as broad as long, sides nearly straight, 



