CBYPTOCEPnALUS. 249 



435. Cryptocephalus oppositus, sp. n. 



Fulvous ; terminal joints of antennae darker ; thorax with two, 

 elytra with three, black spots. 



Head remotely but distinctly punctured ; clypeus strongly 

 pointed at angles ; antennae robust, basal five joints fulvous, rest 

 fuscous, fifth and following joints somewhat triangularly widened. 

 Thorax subglobular, narrowed anteriorly, extreme basal margin 

 black, finely toothed, disc with two black spots rather widely 

 separated on the middle ; scutellum raised, short, base with a 

 small fovea. Elytra slightly narrowed posteriorly, the punctura- 

 tion fine and regular; a humeral spot, another near scutellum 

 larger, a third near apex between fifth and eighth rows of punc- 

 tures, of round shape, black, all these spots surrounded by a paler 

 coloured ring. Body beneath and legs rather paler than the 

 ground-colour above. Prosteruum with posterior angles strongly 

 pointed. 



Var. Elytral basal spots nearly confluent, all of them larger ; a 

 stripe at the sides of the breast and the middle of the abdominal 

 .segments black. 



Length 5 mm. 



Hob. N.W. Himalayas : Kulu (Coll. Brit. Mus.}. 



Allied to C. herbsti and C. pulvillatus, but without any sutural 

 or marginal black stripes and the thorax entirely impunctate. 



436. Cryptocephalus kandyensis, Weise, Deut. ent. Zeit. 1903, p. 31. 



Reddish-brown ; antennae (base excepted), two spots on thorax, 

 three on elytra (2 . 1) black margined with flavous ; sides of 

 thorax and breast, abdomen and pygidium flavous ; the pygidium 

 with two black spots ; first abdominal segment at sides and last 

 segment at middle black. 



Head punctured on the middle ; thorax finely and less densely 

 punctate, interstices very minutely so ; antennae with the last 

 seven joints widened, black. Thorax with the spots widely sepa- 

 rated, placed transversely on the middle. Elytra moderately 

 strongly puuctate-striate, puncturation absent towards apex ; of 

 the spots on the elytra, two are placed at the base, the inner one 

 round, nearer to base than to suture or to outer spot, the outer 

 one on the humeral callus, elongate subquadrate, scarcely twice as 

 long as broad, third spot placed behind the middle, slightly larger 

 than the others, transversely ovate. 



d 1 . Tibiae, the intermediate especially, and the anterior tarsi 

 strongly widened near apex ; last abdominal segment with a wide 

 shallow fovea. 



Length 5 mm. 



Hob. Ceylon : Kandy. 



Allied to C. herbsti, Suffr., but different in coloration. 



