246 CHItYSOMELlB.E. 



It is probable that this species is only the female of C. angusto- 

 marginatus, Jac., as I cannot find structural differences; but 

 without more specimens for comparison it is impossible to be 

 certain : the present insect, however, is larger, only the extreme 

 elytral margins are black and the tarsi are fulvous. 



'431. CryptocephalllS SUillus, Suffr. Monoyr., Linn. Ent. xiv, 1860, 



p. 14. 



Cryptoceplialus carneobifasciatus, Motsch. Bull. Mosc. 1866, p. 411. 

 Cryptocephalus nagpurensis. Duviv. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belq. xxxvi. 



1892, p. 400. 



Beneath flavous, above bright fulvous ; thorax with two black 

 spots on anterior margin and a black edging to the posterior 

 margin. Elytra : two spots at base and one behind the middle 

 black edged with brown, also each elytron black at base and black 

 at base of its epipleuron. 



Head rather strongly longitudinally grooved at vertex and 

 studded with some fine punctures ; clypeus more finely punctured ; 

 antennae fulvous, extending below middle of elytra in male, third 

 joint one and a half times longer than the second and subequal to 

 the fourth joint. Thorax subglobular anteriorly, nearly twice as 

 broad as long, impunctate, very shining, the spots subtriangular. 

 Scutellum smooth, margined with black. Elytra slightly narrowed 

 posteriorly, punctate-striate, the puncturation partly obsolete at 

 apex, interstices with a row of very fine punctures, sides impressed ; 

 scutellar region raised, bright fulvous ; the spots near scutellum 

 and on the shoulders rounded, the posterior spot transverse in 

 shape, placed near suture. Beneath punctured, finely pubescent ; 

 metasternum reddish ; anterior margin of prosternum raised and 

 angulate. $ . Larger, antennae shorter. 



Length, 3 3^, $ 4| mm. 



Nab. Bengal: Mandar ; Konbir; Surat (Calcutta Hits.). 

 Ceylon. 



The transverse elytral bands in this species may be dark red or 

 more or less black or black with reddish edges. The type of 

 C. nagpwensis, Duv., which I was enabled to examine, differs in 

 no way from the form described by Suffrian in which the thoracic 

 spots are absent. 



432. Cryptocephalus faustnlus, Svffr. Monogr., Linn. Ent. ix, 1854, 



p. 83. 



" Obscure fulvous ; thorax with four obscure brownish spots ; 

 elytra with five black spots (2.2. 1). 



'^Head with feeble central groove; clypeus not separated, 

 closely punctured ; antennae with the third joint twice, the fourth 

 three times as long as the second, terminal joints moderately 



