218 CHETSOMELIDjB. 



sternum rather transverse, flavous, posterior angles strongly 

 pointed. 



Length 3 mm. 



Hob. Northern India (Coll. Brit. Mus.}. 



Allied to C. l&vissimus, Suffr., the thorax impunctate, elytra 

 without humeral spot, the elytral puncturation strong, not extremely 

 fine. 



386. Cryptocephalns subcostatus, Jac. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xlviii, 

 1904, p. 382. 



Flavous beneath, above fulvous ; thorax with two black spots ; 

 elytra strongly punctate-striate, the interstices more or less longi- 

 tudinally convex. 



Head flavous or testaceous, closely semirugose, punctate through- 

 out ; labrum smooth ; mandibles nearly black ; antennae entirely 

 fulvous, the third joint longer than the 

 fourth, terminal joints widened, sub- 

 triangular, last joint with an additional 

 pointed appendage ; anterior edge of the 

 dypeus only slightly concave. Thorax 

 strongly deflexed at the sides, narrowed in 

 front, the posterior angles acute but not 

 much produced; the disc impunctate, ful- 

 vous, with two black spots, more widely 

 separated from each other than are either 

 of them from the lateral margins ; scutellum 

 rather broad, flavous, margined with black. 

 Elytra not depressed below the base, 

 fulvous, strongly punctate - striate, the 

 Fig. 77. Crypto- punctures much finer near the apex, the 

 cephalics subcostatus. interstices slightly convex, impunctate. 

 Beneath and the legs pale flavous, the 



sides of the breast strongly punctured. Prosternum produced 

 into a long projection anteriorly, deeply bilobed posteriorly ; 

 pygidium flavous, finely rugose. 

 Length 5-7 mm. 



Hob. Southern India : Anaimalai Hills. 



Closely allied to several similarly coloured Indian species, notably 

 C. fraternus, Duviv. and G. andreivesi, Jac., but distinguished 

 from the former by the scarcely emarginate clypeus, the very 

 closely punctured head and the structure of the prosternum ; 

 from the latter species by the rather convex elytral interstices, 

 colour of the antennae and the entirely flavous underside, also by 

 the prosternum being pointed anteriorly instead of broadly 

 rounded. C. fatuus, Suffr. has no thoracic spots, an elongate, 

 triangular scutellnm and finely punctured elytral interstices ; the 

 prosternum also is broadly not pointedly produced. The female of 



