CBYPTOCEPHALUS. 237 



punctured, pubescence thin, interstices shining ; the marking at 

 middle very indistinct, only the middle line black, the lateral 

 branches obsolete. Scutellum elongately triangular, strongly 

 narrowed, apex shortly rounded, base with fovea. Elytra with 

 distinct epipleural lobes, punctured, the punctures strong, finer 

 towards apex, interstices finely punctured and transversely 

 wrinkled, with short white pubescence. Abdomen "with a black 

 oblique spot on first segment at each side ; femora with a faint 

 black line on outer side ; prosternum with hind angles broad and 

 blunt. 



" Length 4 mm. 



"Hab. Southern India." (Suffrian.} 



419. Cryptocephalus tricinctus, Redtenb. Hiiyel's Kaschm. iv, 1848, 

 p. 562, pi. 28, fig. 6; Saffr. Motwyr., Linn. Ent. ix, 1854, p. 15 ; 

 id. t. c. xiv, 1860, p. 9. 



Flavous ; a transverse band at base of thorax, prolonged ante- 

 riorly from middle towards anterior margin, two transverse bands 

 on the elytra and their apices, black. 



Head closely punctured, deeply depressed at middle with longi- 

 tudinal groove on vertex, vertex and 

 groove black; clypeus separated from 

 face, broad and transverse, moderately 

 emarginate in front ; mandibles black ; 

 eyes subquadrately emarginate, sides of 

 emarginatioii straight with a piceous 

 stripe within ; antennae with basal five 

 or six joints flavous, rest black. Thorax 

 strongly transverse, rather short, sides 

 feebly rounded, surface extremely mi- 

 nutely punctured. Scutellum broad, 



Fig. 86.- Cryptocephalus black > a P ex truncate, transversely grooved. 

 iridnctus. Elytra deeply punctured, the punctures 



not quite extended to the basal margin, 



interstices more or less convex ; the first band not extending to 

 base, leaving the latter narrowly flavous, its lower edge strongly 

 dentate, its inner end not touching suture near scutellum but con- 

 nected with the second band along the sutural margin ; this band 

 broader, placed behind the middle, anterior and posterior margins 

 widened into a tooth at middle, apical black edging extended 

 along the suture and narrowly joined on to the preceding band. 

 Body beneath and legs flavous, sides of breast blackish. 

 Length 0-7 mm. 



Hab. Kashmir ; Mussoorie, 7500 feet. 



In the c? the joints of the antenn* are much more elongate 

 than in the $ . 



