206 CHBYSOMELID^E. 



shining. Scutellum strongly raised, broadly triangular, basal 

 margin piceous. Elytra wider than thorax, slightly narrowed 

 behind shoulders and widened again, raised round scutellum, 

 shoulders elongate, prominent, epipleural lobes well marked ; surface 

 rather strongly punctate-striate below base, interstices distinctly 

 raised, very finely punctured anteriorly only, very shining, the 

 humeral spot sometimes prolonged into a band towards scutellum, 

 posterior band triangularly emarginate at suture in front, leaving 

 apex only narrowly flavous, extending obliquely outwards nearly 

 as far as the humeral spot and occupying posterior half of elytra. 

 Pygidium finely punctured, flavous, as are also the underside and 

 legs ; prosternum produced and hollow in front, posterior angles 

 acutely pointed." (Suffrian.) 



Length 21-2 1 mm. 



Hab. Southern India. 



Belonging to a group that has the thorax strongly narrowed in 

 front and deeply depressed posteriorly, the antennae very long and 

 the elytral puncturation strongly marked. 



360. Cryptocephalus ineditus, sp. n. 



Head, thorax and legs pale flavous ; antennae and underside 

 black ; elytra black, a narrow transverse band at middle yellowish- 

 white. 



Head impunctate, very pale, with a short groove at vertex ; eyes 

 rather closely approximate at top, very broadly angularly emargi- 

 nate ; clypeus deeply depressed at middle ; basal two or three joints 

 of antennae flavous, third joint slightly shorter than fourth, 

 following very slender and elongate. Thorax but moderately 

 convex, narrowed in front, sides straight, posterior margin not 

 visibly serrate, surface impunctate. Scutellum flavous, base black, 

 with fovea. Elytra finely and closely punctate-striate, narrow 

 and parallel, the pale band placed at middle and slightly widened 

 at sides. Posterior legs sometimes piceous ; femora very robust 

 and thick. 



Length 2-2| mm. 



Hab. Burma : Euby Mines (Coll. Brit. Mus.*). 



Almost identical in coloration and shape with C. elegans, but the 

 elytral band at not behind the middle, and the abdomen black. In 

 some specimens the anterior portion of the thorax is stained with 

 pale fulvous, leaving the margins and two large oblique patches 

 at base pale flavous ; the antennae in the male extend nearly to 

 the apex of elytra. 



361. Cryptocephalus feae, Jac. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxxii, p. 891 

 (1892). 



Beneath black ; above and the tibiae fulvous, extreme base of 

 thorax flavous ; basal margin of elytra flavous, edged with black. 



Head finely and sparingly punctured, black, intraocular space 



