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371. Cryptocephalus lundi, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Suppl 1798, p. ]07; 

 Suffr. Monogr., Linn. Ent. ix, 1854, p. 158. 



" Above testaceous ; head, thorax, and elytra smooth ; body 

 beneath black, partly testaceous. Size that of C. congest and 

 C. ornatus." (Suffrian.) 



Hob. Tranquebar. 



372. Cryptocephalus octavius, Thunb. Mus. Nat. Ac. Ups. iv, 1787, 

 p. 46. 



"Thorax rufous, with crescent-shaped flavous mark. Elytra 

 black, with oblique flavous line at three-fourths of its length." 

 ( Thunbery.) 



Hob. "Irid. Or." 



373. Cryptocephalus decorus, Oliv. Ent. \i, 1808, p. 828, pi. 7, fig. 104. 



" Dark aeneous, head, thorax and legs rufous. 



" Small, antennae wanting. Thorax smooth, shining. Elytra 

 scarcely punctate-striate, underside black." (Olivier.) 



Hob. " India orient." (teste Olivier). 



The above short description is all that Olivier gives ; no opinion 

 can therefore be formed as to the position of this species. 



374. Cryptocephalus pusaensis, sp. n. 



Testaceous ; thorax with four more or less distinct black spots 

 or bands surrounded by fulvous ; elytra also with four or more 

 small black markings placed on the punctured striae. 



Head strongly and rather remotely punctured ; a central line 

 and a small spot at base of antennae obscure piceous ; labrum 

 testaceous ; antennae black, short, extending to base of elytra, 

 basal four joints testaceous, apical joints slightly dilated. Thorax 

 twice as broad as long, strongly narrowed in front, sides nearly 

 straight ; surface strongly and subremotely punctured, middle of 

 disc with two obscure piceous or dark fulvous longitudinal bands, 

 more or less marked with black, sides with broader similarly 

 coloured patch, marked with a black spot, rest of the disc pale 

 flavous or testaceous, extreme basal margin black, Scutellum 

 oblong, apex truncate. Elytra subcylindrical, strongly punctate- 

 striate, punctures deep and closely placed, partly transverse in 

 shape, nearly black ; interstices sparingly punctured and finely 

 wrinkled, the first row joined to the second near the middle, the 

 sixth and seventh joined at apex behind the middle, interstices 

 near lateral margins wider and raised ; shoulders with an irregular 

 black elongate spot, another near scutellum and two immediately 

 behind the middle ; these spots are often mere elongate short 

 streaks like the widening of the punctures at those places. 



