228 CHRYSOMELID^E. 



403. Cryptocephalus lutulentus, Suffr. Monogr., Linn. Ent. xiv, 1860, 



p. 12. 



" Pale fulvous ; front of head, two spots on thorax, and elytral 

 margins broadly black. 



"Head flat, distinctly grooved at middle ; clypeus transversely 

 depressed, finely and remotely punctured, sides of face paler than 

 the rest ; antennae flavous, about half the length of body, slender 

 and delicate, third to fifth joints gradually lengthened, rest 

 scarcely wider. Thorax with two short but deep depressions at 

 base ; surface impunctate, two elongate spots touching posterior 

 margin and narrowed anteriorly extend to middle of disc. Elytra 

 raised near scutellum, only feebly depressed below, shoulders 

 broadly raised, epipleural lobes long ; surface strongly punctate- 

 striate anteriorly, gradually finer towards apex, interstices mostly 

 flat. Anterior margin of prosternum broadly produced, posterior 

 angles rather blunt and short. 



" Length 2^ mm. 



" Hob. Southern India. 



" Allied to C. circumductus but with black forehead, two thoracic 

 spots, and with broad black elytral margins extending to epi- 

 pleural lobes." (Suffrian.) 



404. Cryptocephalus sehestedti, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Supt)l. 1798, p. 107 ; 



Oliv. Ent. vi, p. 830, pi. 7, fig. 108 ; Suffr. Monogr., Linn. Ent. 

 ix, 1854, p. 28 ; id. t. c. xiv, 1860, p. 12. 



Pale fulvous ; beneath black with flavous legs ; elytra with a 

 broad longitudinal black band, abbreviated posteriorly. 



Short and broad ; head rather strongly and closely punctured ; 

 antennae extending to base ot elytra, basal 

 five joints flavous, rest dark fuscous, third 

 and fourth joints short, nearly equal. 

 Thorax narrowed anteriorly, extreme basal 

 edge black, serrate, surface extremely 

 closely and finely punctured, lateral margins 

 and two small spots in front of scutellum 

 often pale. Scutellum triangular, more or 

 less fulvous, with darker edges. Elytra 

 moderately strongly punctured, interstices 

 nither closely and finely punctate ; the black 

 \srypto- band between second and seventh row of 

 cephalus sehestedti. punctures (not counting short subsutural 

 row) but covering the eighth row at base, 

 slightly curved and not extending to apex. Last abdominal segment 

 often flavous. 

 Length 2-3 mm. 



Hob. India : Bengal ; Southern Bombay ; Nilgiris ; Malabar. 

 Ceylon. 



Well distinguished by the elytral black band on disc. 



