254 CHBY8OMELID.X. 



I know of no other similarly sculptured or coloured Crypto- 

 cephalus from our region. The second elytral spot is placed just 

 behind the middle, nearer to the margin than to the suture and 

 below the humeral spot, but slightly more inwards. 



Male unknown. 



443. Cryptocephalus dohertyi, sp. n. 



Head and body beneath flavous ; terminal joints of antennae 

 black ; above and the legs fulvous ; each elytron with a humeral 

 and a subapical black spot. 



Head strongly and closely punctured, an obscure spot at vertex 

 and above base of antennae fulvous ; antennae rather robust, basal 

 five joints fulvous, rest black, second joint 

 extremely small, third and fourth equal, 

 intermediate joints slightly widened, pubes- 

 cent. Thorax subglobular, lateral margins 

 nearly straight, narrowed in front, posterior 

 angles acute ; surface impunctate, extreme 

 basal margin black. Scutellum fulvous, 

 basal margin black, with a small fovea. 

 Elytra very regularly and distinctly puuctate- 

 striate, the punctures only slightly finer at 

 apex, interstices flat and impunctate ; the 

 shoulders with a black spot, another spot 

 near apex between third and seventh rows 

 .Fig. y. f punctures ; fifth and sixth rows of the 



Cryptocephalus dolierlyi. punctures, not counting the subsutural row, 

 shorter than the others and joined at the 

 ends. Pygidium flavous, finely rugose. Prosternum subquadrate, 

 posterior border deeply emargiriate. Last abdominal segment of 

 male with a small and round, that of female with a deep and 

 elongate, fovea, that occupies the entire segment at middle. 

 Length 5-6 mm. 



Hob. Burma: Euby Mines (Coll. Brit. Mus.\ 

 The position of the posterior spot lower down than in the allied 

 species is a good distinction. 



444. Cryptocephalus vahli, Fair. Ent. Syst. Suppl. 1798, p. 108. 



Cryptocephalus parasiticus, Suffr. Monoyr., Linn. Ent. ix, 1854, 



p. 42 ; id. t. c. xiv, 1860, p. 20. 

 Cryptocephalus mephistopkeles, Duviv. Bull. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxv, 



1891, p. xxxvi. 

 Cryptocephalus piceitarsis, Jac. Ann. Soc. Ent. Bely. xlvii, 1903, 



p. 90. 

 Crvptocephalus vahli, var. parasiticus, Weise, Deuts. ent. Zeit. 1903, 



p. 30. 



Eeddish-fulvous, elytral epipleurse below shoulders flavous ; 



