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punctate-striate ; interstices costate, strongly so at sides ; the 

 lateral black band narrow, not extending to apex, inner margin 

 somewhat ill-defined ; sutural band much broader, likewise abbrevi- 

 ated before apex, deeply emarginate at middle. Anterior legs flavous. 



Length 3 mm. 



Uab. Nepal (Coll. Oxford Mus.'). 



Although the single specimen before me is very defective, 

 without posterior legs and abdomen, it is sufficiently distinguished 

 by the elytra! pattern and the costate interstices to render recog- 

 nition of the species easy. From C. bombayemtis the different 

 colour of head and thorax at once distinguish it, while C. signatella, 

 Jac. has a different coloured thorax and an evenly wide sutural 

 band. 



409. Cryptocephalus nncinatus, Suf r . Monogr.,Linn.Ent.'xi\, 1860, 



p. 52. 



5 . Flavous ; vertex of bead, two spots on thorax, scutellura, 

 shoulders and a longitudinal band on elytra that is curved 

 inwards, black. 



Very closely allied to C. malleatus, Suffr., and differs only in the 

 following details : The head has a distinct black band on the 

 vertex and the thorax two spots ; the elytral bands are stronger, 

 better defined, narrower, in shape linear, dilated posteriorly on the 

 outer side ; the posterior curve is placed lower down and termi- 

 nates at apical angle more acutely ; the apex remains very 

 narrowly edged with flavous ; the basal transverse band is wanting 

 and is replaced by a narrow elongate spot on the humeral callus. 

 The size is double that of C. malleatus ; the elytral punctures are 

 much stronger and the outer two interstices are distinctly 

 convex, while in C. malleatus all interstices are flat and the 

 punctures obsolete towards apex. Prosternum produced in front, 

 round and hollow ; posterior margin bluntly produced. 



Length 4 mm. 



Hab. Ceylon. 



410. Cryptocephalus notogrammus, Suffr. Monogr., Linn. Ent. ix, 



18o4, p. 143 ; id. t. c. xiv, 1860, p. 53. 



Black ; base of antennae, two small spots on head, anterior and 

 lateral margins of thorax and legs flavous ; elytra flavous, with 

 a broad sutural and a discoidal band. 



"Head with fine central line, extremely finely and sparingly 

 punctured, mouth-parts pale brown ; sides of face and a small 

 obsolete spot at top of eyes yellow ; antennae of about half the 

 length of body, third and fourth joints equal, flavous, fifth and 

 following joints blackish. Thorax extremely finely and remotely 

 punctured, a narrow anterior wider lateral margin and anterior 

 corners flavous. Scutellum black. Elytra narrowed posteriorly ; 



