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but sparingly punctured and partly wrinkled ; the tarsi entirely 

 black but the legs variable in colour. From the preceding species 

 the present differs in the black underside and different elytral 

 sculpturing. 



382. Cryptocephalus cribricollis, sp. n. 



Head, basal joints of antennae, scutellum, underside and legs 

 flavous ; above fulvous ; basal margin of elytra narrowly black. 



Subcylindrical and parallel. Head with a few punctures irregu- 

 larly placed and an obscure central longitudinal groove, surface 

 very shining ; eyes moderately deeply and angularly emarginate ; 

 antennae not extending to middle of elytra, basal five joints flavous, 

 rest black, third and following two joints equal, terminal joints 

 widened. Thorax short and transverse, not or scarcely widened 

 at middle, posterior angles not produced but acute, entire surface 

 covered with extremely fine longitudinal scratches or aciculations 

 and minute punctures. Scutellum triangular, flavous. Elytra 

 moderately strongly punctate-striate, rows distantly placed, inter- 

 stices flat and finely punctured, lateral lobes very feeble. Legs and 

 tarsi robust. Prosternum not produced in front, posterior angles 

 finely pointed. 



Length 3 mm. 



Hob. Nilgiris. Type in Coll. H. E. Andrewes. 



Amongst the species with unicolorous upper surface there is 

 none with a similarly sculptured thorax, nor can it be compared to 

 any species of other coloration in regard to this part. The 

 specimen before me seems to be a male. 



383. Cryptocephalus hecticus, Fabr. Syst. Eleuth. ii, 1801, p. 56 ; 



Suffr. Monogr., Linn. Ent. ix, 1854, p. 122. 



Pale flavous ; base of elytra narrowly black. 



" Slender and cylindrical, narrowed at base and apex ; head broad, 

 flat, entirely impunctate ; antennae moderately robust, third joint 

 twice as long, the following two three times longer than second, 

 rest distinctly widened. Thorax short, surface very finely, distinctly 

 and closely punctured. Scutellum subquadrate, truncate at apex, 

 strongly raised. Elytra raised near scutellum, shoulders rounded 

 and strongly raised, epipleural lobes long ; surface finely punctate- 

 striate, middle rows nearly obsolete posteriorly, interstices broad, 

 flat, finely and remotely but distinctly punctured, humeral callus 

 brownish. Pygidium and underside yellowish-brown ; legs slender, 

 anterior tibiae somewhat curved, very slender ; posterior angles of 

 prosternum short but pointed, anterior margin slightly produced. 

 Last abdominal segment of female with broad and large fovese, 

 edges with long grey hairs." (Sujfrian.) 



Length 3 mm. 



Hub. India: Pondicherry. 



