CRYPTOCEPHALUS. 243 



Length 7-8 rain. 



Hab. Sikhim : Mungphu ; Assam ; Burma : Bhamo. 



Suffrian described this species from a single female specimen. 

 I have both sexes before me : the male is as usual smaller, and 

 instead of four thoracic spots has only two, the elytra also have 

 the inner spot of the second row wanting. In some specimens 

 all the spots are present in both sexes. The' form with only three 

 spots on each elytron resembles C, sexsic/natus, Fabr., but in this 

 species the thoracic spots are always absent and the underside 

 and pygidium are not marked with black. Characteristic of the 

 present species is the finely and closely punctured and pubescent 

 head, with its deep longitudinal depression and more or less black 

 spots. 



427. Cryptocephalus indicus, Suffr. Monogr., Linn. Ent. ix, 1854, 

 p. 58. 



Fulvous ; head, thorax and elytra more or less spotted, generally 

 with three or four small spots, che spots sometimes confluent. 

 Closely allied to C. sexsiynatus, Fabr. and C. bissexsiynatus, 

 Suffr. and as variable, but separated 

 from the latter species by the differ- 

 "N ence in position of the elytral spots, 



and from either by the more strongly 

 rugose, almost costate elytral interstices 

 at the sides ; the antennae are more 

 elongate and more slender and the 

 posterior angles of the prosternum more 

 strongly pointed. The elytra are strongly 

 and regularly punctured, feebly so behind 

 the middle of the inner disc. Body be- 

 neath either fulvous or more or less black ; 

 legs always fulvous, the posterior femora 

 Fi 9 . 7 often with a black spot. 



CruptoccpLlmindicu*. . The following varieties are known : 

 Var. a. Entire upper surface uni- 

 colorous fulvous. 



Var. b. Elytra with four black marks behind the middle ; thorax 

 with two transverse ill-defined black spots at middle. 



Var. c. Elytra with four black spots (1.2. 1), i. e. one on 

 shoulders and one near apex in addition to the two spots as in 

 var. b. 



Var. d. The two spots near suture joined into a transverse 

 band ; the thoracic spots likewise obliquely connected. 

 Var. e. Thorax and posterior half of elytra black. 

 Length 5-8 mm. 

 Hab. Southern India ; Bombay. 



