252 CHRYSOMELHXE. 



Elytra with strongly marked basal epipleurae, regularly and 

 moderately strongly punctate-striate, finer from the apical third 

 to apex, interstices feebly convex, margins narrowly black ; each 

 elytron with five large black spots placed as in C. dodecaspilus but 

 all larger, the outer spots touch the margins, the inner spots near 

 suture are often joined to the outer ones and form a large trans- 

 verse patch. Pygidium black, margins flavous. Abdomen with 

 first segment at middle and margin of last narrowly flavous. 

 Prosternum produced in front." (Sujfrian.) 



Length 4| mm. 



Sab, Kashmir. 



441. Cryptocephalus dodecaspilus, Suffr. Monogr., Linn. Ent. ix, 



1854, p. 61. 

 Cryptocephalus triangularis, Hope, in Gray's Zool. Misc. 1831, p. 30. 



Flavous ; two spots on thorax, five on elytra (2.2. 1), and the 

 underside black ; abdomen margined with flavous. 



Head flat, forehead with shallow longitudinal groove, a few fine 

 punctures near eyes only ; clypeus not deflexed in front ; vertex, 

 a small spot at base of antennas and the emargination of the eyes 



Fig. 97. Cryptocephalus dodecaspilus. 



in $ black; antennae longer than half the body, third and 

 following four joints gradually elongate, the rest distinctly widened, 

 appendage of terminal joint long, not much pointed, basal five joints 

 flavous, rest black. Thorax strongly convex, much narrowed in 

 front, posterior margin serrate ; surface impunctate, posterior edge 

 narrowly black, two large transverse spots at middle, their posterior 

 margins projecting outwards. Scutellum black. Elytra very 

 slightly narrowed posteriorly, epipleural lobes indistinct ; surface 

 strongly punctate-striate, interstices feebly raised, transversely 

 wrinkled from below scutellum, margins, except at base, black ; 

 four large black spots placed subquadrately at base, the inner spot 

 near the scutellum placed a little below the latter, the other two 



