220 CHRYSOMELID^E. 



short and globose, deeply impressed in front of scutellum, lateral 

 margins feebly curved, distinctly margined, surface nearly im- 

 punetate. Scutellum. elongate, narrow. Elytra rather flat, 

 shoulders subtuberculate, suture near scutellum raised ; epipleural 

 lobes long; surface deeply punctate-striate, interstices slightly 

 raised, lateral interstices more strongly so, very finely and 

 remotely punctured. Pygidium slightly convex at middle ; 

 prosternum broadly produced at middle, posterior angles blunt 

 and short. 



Length 5 mm. 



Hob. India. 



Much larger than C. hecticus, Fabr., with stronger elytral 

 puncturation. 



389. Cryptocephalus fraternus, Duviv. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxvi, 

 1892, p. 404. 



Pale fulvous ; eyes, mandibles and two small spots on thorax 

 black. 



Head feebly impressed and longitudinally grooved ; clypeus 

 deeply and angularly emarginate in front ; vertex strongly, lower 

 portion more finely, punctured ; antenme with terminal joints 

 slightly darkened, not extending beyond middle of body, third 

 joint twice as long as second, third and fourth equal, following 

 joints slightly longer and feebly triangularly dilated. Thorax 

 twice as broad as long, posterior angles very short, pointed ; 

 surface impunctate, the spots placed at middle, separated by a 

 space one and a half times wider than are the spots on the sides. 

 Scutellum rounded at sides, smooth, extreme base dark brown. 

 Elytra with scutellar space slightly raised, feebly impressed below 

 shoulders, very deeply punctate-striate, interior of punctures 

 darker, puncturation towards apex finer. Pygidium subrugose, 

 rounded at apex, very finely pubescent. Beneath finely punctured 

 and pubescent, except at the sides of metasternum which are 

 deeply punctured ; prosternum not prolonged in front. 



$ . Last abdominal segment with a deep central fovea and a 

 smaller fovea at each side. 



Length 7 mm. 



Hob. Bengal : Mandar. 



Closely allied to C. fatuus, Suffr., but differs in being more 

 elongate and narrow, in the angularly emarginate clypeus and in 

 the spotted thorax, the latter also more narrowed anteriorly than 

 in C.fatuuA. Pygidium of C.fatuus is more rounded at apex ; the 

 abdominal fovea of the female is less deep and the lateral fovese 

 are smaller. 



Differs from 0. andrewesi in the nearly unicolorous antennae, 

 non-costate elytra, &c. 



