CEYFTOCEPHA.LUS. 207 



clothed with yellow pubescence ; antennae extending to two-thirds 

 the length of elytra, basal four joints fulvous, rest black, third 

 and fourth joints equal. Thorax more than twice as broad as long, 

 sides rounded and narrowed in front, narrowly margined, posterior 

 border slightly sinuate in front, surface impunctate, extreme basal 

 margin obscure flavous. Scutellum distinctly foveolate at base. 

 Elytra slightly constricted at sides behind the middle, each with 

 ten rows of piceous punctures, the sixth and seventh rows shorter 

 than the others (subsutural row excepted), interstices very finely 

 transversely wrinkled. Legs black, clothed with whitish pubes- 

 cence, upper portion of breast, flavous. 



Length 5-6 mm. 



Hob. Burma : Karennee. 



Distinguished from similarly coloured species by the pubescent 

 black head. 



362. Cryptocephalus signatellus, sp. n. 



Black ; anterior and lateral margins of thor.-ix and elytra flavous, 

 a broad sutural black band on the elytra, truncate before apex ; 

 legs fulvous. 



Head with a few fine punctures, opaque, middle with a narrow 

 transverse dentate pale stripe between eyes; clypeus not separated ; 

 labrum black, prominent ; emargination of eyes round, not very 

 deep, somewhat raised; antennae very slender, black, basal two 

 joints obscure fulvous, fourth and following joints very elongate 

 and slender. Thorax scarcely twice as broad as long, strongly 

 narrowed anteriorly, extremely finely but not very closely 

 punctured, very shining ; anterior margins very narrowly, lateral 

 broadly, flavous. Scutellum broad, triangular. Elytra nearly 

 parallel, strongly and deeply punctured, interstices rather convex 

 and finely wrinkled, a broad sutural band, abbreviated at some 

 distance from apex, and the suture below this band, black, 

 shoulders with black spot. Prosternum longer than broad, carinate 

 in front, the latter fulvous, posterior angles acutely produced into 

 teeth. 



Length 3^ mm. 



Hub. Nilgiris (Coll. H. E. Andrewes). 



Not unlike G, bombayensis, Jac., but the sutural band perfectly 

 straight and truncate before apex. 



303. Cryptocephalus heraldicus, Sti/r. Monogr., Linn. Ent. ix, 1854, 

 p. 145. 



$ . "Flavous ; rnetasternum and abdomen black ; elytra flavous, 

 narrowly margined with black, an elongate brownish band parallel 

 with margins and a bilobate broad longitudinal black band at 

 suture ; pygidium black. 



" Of elongate shape ; head smooth ; clypeus separated at sides 

 only, rugosely punctured anteriorly ; antennae slender, third joint 





