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fine at apex, interstices sparingly and finely punctured. Pygidium 

 black. Prosternum fulvous, pubescent, anterior margin broadly 

 produced, posterior feebly eraarginate. Body beneath clothed with 

 fine yellow pubescence. 



Length 4|-5 mm. 



Hob. Burma : Euby Mines (Coll. Brit. Mus.\ 



The spots on the thorax are sometimes much reduced and the 

 humeral elytral spot may be absent. Easily distinguished by the 

 elytral suture which is black from behind the middle, and the 

 colour of the underside and legs. 



414. Cryptocephalus suavis, Duvic. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxvi, 



1892, p. 401. 



c? . " Fulvous ; apex of tibiae and the tarsi rather fuscous ; 

 nietasternum, scutellum, labrum and antennae (base excepted) 

 black ; head and thorax reddish, two spots on the latter, the basal 

 and lateral margins black. Elytra with 

 narrow basal and lateral margins, a sutural 

 band, and a broad discoidal stripe black. 

 Head rather closely punctured, without 

 longitudinal groove ; clypeus separated by 

 a transverse groove. Antennas extended 



*____ J. to beyond middle of elytra, basal four 



joints fulvous, rest black; third joint 

 slightly longer than second, last six 

 dilated. Thorax convex at anterior two- 

 thirds of disc, narrowed in front, pos- 

 terior angles pointed, sides nearly straight; 

 median lobe Insinuate, a small depression 

 on each side near scutellum ; surface 

 extremely minutely and superficially 

 punctured, two black spots placed 



slightly behind the middle ; posterior margin finely serrate. 

 Scutellum elongate, smooth, foveolate at base. Elytra slightly 

 widened at base, epipleural lobes moderate ; space round scutellum 

 feebly raised ; surface finely punctate-striate, more strongly so at 

 base ; interstices finely rugose ; the sutural band extends side- 

 ways as far as first row of punctures ; the discoidal band com- 

 mences at base, is interrupted a little before apex and is placed 

 between the third and seventh rows. Female unknown. 

 " Length 3 mm. 

 " Hob. Sikhim : Kurseong." (Duvivier.) 



415. Cryptocephalus rectofasciatns, sp. n. 



Black; head flavous marked with black; thorax and femora 

 fulvous; elytra flavous, margins narrowly and a broad discoidal 

 longitudinal band black. 



