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anterior margin, two seraiconfluent spots at lateral margins, two 

 oblique spots at base in front of scutellum and a more or less 

 interrupted median line, flavous. Scutellum dark brown with 

 darker margins. Elytra strongly geminate, punctate-striate, the 

 striae connected at apex, sixth and seventh the shortest; interstices 

 rather convex at sides, finely transversely wrinkled, with eight 

 more or less connected flavous spots ; of these one is placed 

 within the shoulders, one near scutellum and four transversely at 

 middle ; of these last the two inner spots are lower than the outer 

 ones, all are elongate, two others are at the apex, each consisting 

 of three narrow connected short stripes. Beneath finely pubescent, 

 flavous. 



Length 5 mm. 



Hab. Southern India ; Bombay. 



An easily recognized species by reason of its coloration and 

 elytral sculpturing. 



377. Cryptocephalus calanus, Suffr. Linn. Ent. xiv, 1860, p. 37. 



" Fulvous ; underside paler, margins of thorax and a few longi- 

 tudinal spots on elytra pale flavous. 



"Head broadly longitudinally depressed ; clypeus feebly separated 

 from face, surface closely and strongly punctured ; antennae half 

 the length of body, robust, third and fourth joints equal, twice as 

 long as the second, terminal joints widened. Thorax broad, 

 strongly convex, sides rounded before the middle, base with a 

 short deep depression in front of scutellum ; surface when seen 

 under a lens remotely but distinctly punctured, anterior and lateral 

 margins and a transverse spot near base pale flavous. Scutellum 

 short, elongately subquadrate, truncate at apex, margined with 

 piceous. Elvtra geminately and distinctly punctate-striate, outer 

 interstices feebly convex, very finely wrinkled, base and sides 

 slightly paler than rest of surface ; on the wider interstices a 

 yellow longitudinal, obsolete stripe." (Suffrian.) 



Length 6-7 mm. 



Hab. Southern India. 



Apparently closely allied to C. sandroeottus, rather larger 

 although more slender, paler and less distinctly spotted, the gemi- 

 nate punctured elytral striae less marked and the markings very 

 faint. 



378. Cryptocephalus fenestratus, Suffr. Monoyr., Linn. Ent. xiv, 

 1860, p. 45. 



" Eeddish-brown ; sides and an obsolete median line on thorax 

 flavous ; elytra with two yellow spots on each (1.1). 



" Head finely and rather closely punctured, opaque, lower portion 

 paler ; antennae (?) half the length of body, third and fourth 

 joints equal, twice as long as the second, terminal joints widened, 



