CBTPTOCKPHAIiUS. 



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405. Cryptocephalus lucifer, Suffr. Monoyr., Linn. Ent. ix, 1854, 

 p. 141. 



$ . Black ; basal joints of antennae, legs, anterior and lateral 

 margins of thorax and two spots at base of latter, flavous ; elytra 

 flavous margined with black and with discoidal black band. 



Head finely punctured and transversely wrinkled, mouth-parts 

 brownish ; space below eyes flavous ; antennae with third joint 

 slightly longer than second, fourth still 

 longer and equal to following joints, basal 

 joint flavous, black above, following three 

 piceous, rest black. Thorax scarcely per- 

 ceptibly punctured, punctures very remote, 

 anterior margin narrowly, lateral veiy 

 broadly flavous ; posterior margin narrowly 

 black, finely serrate, two oblique posteriorly 

 connected yellow spots at base. Scutellum 

 black. Elytra strongly punctured, the 

 punctures distinct to apex; epipleural lobes 

 short ; base near scutellum deeply trans- 

 versely depressed, interstices feebly raised ; 

 outer margins black, extending round 

 epipleural lobes and base, sutural margins 

 more broadly black ; the discoidal stripe 

 gradually narrowed posteriorly, not extended to apex and occupying 

 at its narrowest portion the third to the seventh row of punctures. 

 Pyeridium yellowish with darker margin. Last abdominal segment 

 paler at hind margin, with an ovate posteriorly truncate cavity. 

 Length 5 mm. 

 Hah. Southern India : Pondicherry. 



Fig. 82. 

 Cryptocephalus Iwifer. 



400. Cryptocephalus OVUlum, Suffr. Monogr., Linn. Ent. ix, 1854, p. 30; 

 id. t. a. xiv, 1860, p. 12. 



Flavous; breast black; elytra with margins, 

 suture and an elongate posteriorly abbreviated 

 stripe on disc black. 



Closely resembles C. sehestedti, Fabr., but 

 smaller, more rounded, puncturation of elytra 

 finer, the impressions at base of thorax deep 

 and the scutellum, which is triangular in 

 sehestedti, is in this species elongate and 

 narrow. Antennae only flavous on the under- 

 side, brownish above ; the breast less black 

 than in C. sehestedti ; abdomen scarcely 

 darker. The elytra have the outer margins 

 deep black and the suture is broadly of 

 similar coloration ; the bands do not extend 

 Prosternum but little produced in front. 



Cryptocephalus ovulum. 



quite to apex. 



