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shining ; a broad transverse black band at base, its posterior edge 

 somewhat obsolete but extended downwards at the sides to as 

 far as the' middle, therefore deeply concave within the humeral 

 portion. 



Length 2| mm. 



Hob. Bengal. 



Suffrian compares this species with C. vahli, from which it 

 differs in its smaller size, the strong elytral puncturation distinct 

 to apex and dark epipleural lobes. 



400. Cryptocephalus deficiens, Sufir. Monogr., Linn. Ent. ix, 1854, 

 p. 146. 



Black ; clypeus, basal joints of antennae and legs flavous ; elytra 

 with the anterior half flavous, the rest black. 



Head finely rugose between the eyes and closely pubescent ; 

 the latter rather closely approximate at the top, triangularly 

 emarginate at middle ; clypeus nearly smooth, emarginate in 

 front ; labruni and palpi flavous ; antennae slender, basal four 

 joints flavous, rest black, third and following joints nearly equal. 

 Thorax rather strongly narrowed anteriorly, the sides very 

 narrowly margined ; the disc entirely impunctate, very shining. 

 Scutellum black, triangular. Elytra rather strongly punctate- 

 striate, the punctures distinct to apex, the flavous anterior half 

 gradually widened at the lateral margins, the edge separating it 

 from the black portion, sinuate at the middle. Beneath and the 

 pygidium black. Prosternum not produced in front, nearly truncate 

 posteriorly. 



Length 2| mm. 



Hob. Northern India (Suffrian) ; Assam (Doherty). 

 The type of this species was described by the author from a 

 single specimen without a head, but as every other detail given 

 agrees with the specimens I have before me, I have no doubt 

 about the identity of the latter with Suffrian's species. It is 

 smaller than C. lefevrei and has strongly not finely punctured 

 elytra ; the same difference in size and shape of elytral markings 

 separates the species from C. dimidiatipennis. 



Elytra fulvous or flavous ivith longitudinal black bands 

 or black suture. 



401. Cryptocephalus nigrolineatus, Jac. Ann. Soc. Ent. Selg. xlvii, 

 1903, p. 89. 



Flavous ; an intraocular stripe and the apical joints of antennae 

 black ; thorax light fulvous with pale margins ; elytra with the 

 extreme lateral margins behind the middle and a narrow lateral 



