212 CHRISOMELnXK. 



Femora and tibiae more or less stained with pale piceous or 

 fulvous. Prosternum subquadrate. 



Length 2| mm. 



Hab. India : Pusa (Colls. Lefroy $ Jacoly}. 



A peculiarly marked species which cannot be mistaken for any 

 other. 



Elytra fulvous with paler spots or stripes (sometimes a small 

 humeral spot only). 



375. Cryptocephalus obscuro-maculatus, sp. n. 



Black ; basal joints of antennae fulvous ; thorax reddish with 

 transverse patch at base ; elytra fulvous, with obscure, elongate, 

 flavous spots ; tarsi fulvous. 



$ . Head black, closely and strongly punctured ; inner margins 

 of eyes and labruin fulvous ; basal six joints of antennae fulvous, 

 first basal joint black above, rest wanting in the type and only 

 specimen. Thorax obscure flavous, strongly transverse, narrowed 

 at sides ; surface extremely minutely punctured, posterior angles 

 with two or three distinct teeth ; a central longitudinal line flavous, 

 rest of disc reddish-fulvous, a transverse anteriorly deeply sinuate 

 black patch or band at middle of base. Scutellum black, broadly 

 elongate, apex truncate. Elytra with five double rows of strong 

 and deep punctures, sixth and seventh rows the shortest, joined at 

 apex, the other rows similarly joined ; alternate interstices marked 

 with very pale longitudinal bands or spots of irregular shape. 

 Pygidiuin and body beneath black, extreme base and apex of tibiae 

 fulvous. Prosternum fulvous, pointed at the posterior angles ; 

 anterior coxae fulvous. 



Length 5| mm. 



Hab. Southern India (Coll. Brit. Mus.}. 



Allied to C. sandrocottus, Suffr. and C. calanus, Suffr., but distin- 

 guished by the colour of the head, thorax and legs and other 

 details : in some specimens the flavous elytral spots are entirely 

 obsolete. These are the only specimens with geminate punctate 

 elytra. 



376. Cryptocephalus sandrocottus, Suffr. Monogr., Linn. Ent. ix, 



1854, p. 71 ; id. t. c. xiv, 1860, p. 37. 



Dark fulvous above, spotted with flavous ; underside and legs 

 flavous ; thorax and elytra with numerous elongate flavous spots 

 and stripes. 



Head flavous, closely and strongly punctured, with narrow 

 central groove, a longitudinal stripe at middle dark brown ; antennae 

 robust, basal four joints flavous, rest black, third and fourth 

 equal, following joints widened but elongate. Thorax dark brown, 

 rather short and transverse, extremely minutely punctured, extreme 



