242 CHRYSOMELIDjE. 



Var. c. Humeral spot as in type ; posterior band very broad 

 continued posteriorly along suture, sometimes also extending 

 upwards. 



Var. d. Entire posterior half of elytra black. 



Length 5-8 mm. 



Hab. Generally distributed throughout India and Ceylon. 



The elytral spots vary in number but typically there are three. 



426. Cryptocephalus bissexsignatus, Suffr. Monogr., Linn. Ent. ix, 



Cryptocephalus bissexsignat 

 1854, p. 56. 



? . Dark red : thorax and elytra each with four black spots 

 (2.2). 



Head finely and sparingly punctured, the interstices clothed 

 with very short pubescence, middle of forehead and margins 

 of clypeus darker ; antennae pale fulvous, half the length of the 

 body, third and fourth joints equal, each about two and a 

 half times longer than the second, following joints (the seventh 

 especially) widened. Thorax short, narrowed in front, sides 

 rounded at middle, depressed at base in front of scutellum, 

 scarcely perceptibly punctured ; sides pale yellowish, middle with 



Fig. 91. Cryptocephalus bissexsignahis. 



two black spots and two others below the first spots. Scutellum 

 fulvous margined with black. Elytra with elongate shoulders, 

 epipleural lobes long ; surface strongly punctate-striate, finer near 

 apex, interstices flat, finely wrinkled anteriorly, very sparingly 

 punctured ; the extreme basal margin, a spot on the shoulders, an 

 inner and slightly lower spot, and two behind the middle below 

 the anterior spots, black, the outer spot of the latter two larger 

 than the humeral spot. Pygidium black, broadly margined with 

 flavous. Underside closely somewhat finely rugosely punctured, 

 pubescent; middle of breast and of metasternum yellow, rest 

 black; abdomen yellow, a spot on each side of first abdominal 

 segment and a transverse band at middle of each of the following 

 segments black. 



