CKYPTOCEPHALUS. 



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Head piceous or black, closely and almost rugosely punctured, a 

 small spot at base of antennae and on the clypeus flavous ; 

 antennae black, extending to middle of elytra, basal five joints 

 fulvous, rather short. Thorax with rounded 

 sides, very strongly and closely punctured, 

 the punctures more closely placed at sides 

 than at middle, interstices rugose and 

 convex, except those at middle ; anterior 

 margin narrowly, sides more broadly, fla- 

 vous. Scutellnm flavous margined with 

 piceous. Elytra without basal depression, 

 strongly punctate-striate, punctures only 

 slightly finer at apex, interstices minutely 

 granulate ; a broad transverse band at base, 

 not extending to sides and joined to a 

 sutural band, widened at middle into a 

 lozenge-shaped spot, black, this latter not 

 extending to apex. Pygidium black, 

 strongly punctured. Body beneath black, 

 finely pubescent, anterior margin of breast 

 flavous ; posterior femora with a black spot. 

 Length 3 mm. 

 Hob. Bombay: Belgaura. 



Fig. 75. Crypto- 

 cepkalus bombayensis. 



366. Cryptocephalus belgaumensis, Jac. Ann. Soc. Ent. Bely. xxxix, 

 1895, p. 265. 



Beneath flavous or pale fulvous, above black ; thorax with sides 

 and anterior margin flavous ; elytra with a 

 broad transverse band at base, another 

 near apex and a spot below the shoulders 

 bright flavous. 



Head closely punctured, flavous, de- 

 pressed between the eyes, the latter broadiy 

 angularly notched ; antennae two-thirds 

 the length of body, basal five joints 

 flavous, rest black. Thorax strongly trans- 

 verse and rather short, sides nearly 

 straight, gradually narrowed anteriorly, 

 posterior angles pointed; surface black, 

 anterior margin very narrowly, sides more 

 broadly, and a narrow central stripe an- 

 teriorly, flavous ; a shallow fovea at each 

 side near scutellum ; sides entirely finely 

 strigose, the strigae changing into fine punc 

 tures at base. Scutellum black, not longer than broad. Elytra 

 not depressed below base, strongly punctate-striate, apical portion 

 very minutely punctured, interstices longitudinally costate at 



Fig. 76. Crypto- 

 lus belgaumensis. 



