258 CHRYSOMELTDjE. 



broad and well-marked ; shoulders with a black spot, another 

 transverse black spot between tbird and seventh rows of punctures. 

 Underside rather paler, finely punctured. Prosternum strongly 

 produced in front, triangularly so at middle, posterior angles 

 acutely pointed. 



Length 7 mm. 



Hob. Burma : Paungdc (Coll. Jacoby}. 



A large species, quite distinct from the preceding forms ; dark 

 fulvous in colour ; the thorax very strongly convex, the posterior 

 elytral spot placed well inwards ; sculpture of head and colour of 

 the antennae quite different. A single female specimen only is 

 known to rue. 



448. Cryptocephalus herbsti, Suffr. Monogr., Linn. Ent. ix, 1854, 



p. 25. 



Eeddish ; elytra with three black spots (2.1), suture black 

 posteriorly. 



Short and ovate. Head coarsely but not closely punctured ; 

 antennae rather short, not extending beyond thorax or only 

 slightly so in female ; antennae with third and fourth joints not 

 much longer than the second, six terminal joints strongly widened, 

 black, the others flavous. Thorax closely and moderately strongly 

 punctured. Scutellum flavous, with darker margins. Elytra 

 strongly punctate-striate ; interstices flat, finely punctured, partly 

 wrinkled, rather opaque ; basal margin and the suture posteriorly 

 narrowly black ; spots small, sometimes nearly obsolete, placed as 

 in the allied species. Pygidiuin pale fulvous ; abdomen sometimes 

 brownish with paler margins ; legs fulvous, tarsi short and broad. 

 Prosternum produced in front, convex at middle in male. 



Length 2| mm. 



Hah. Bengal; Assam. 



I have not seen any specimens like those mentioned by Suffrian ; 

 those which I refer to his species are 4 mm. in length, and as they 

 agree in most details i have not much doubt about the correct 

 determination. 



449. Cryptocephalus pulvillatllS, Suffr. Monogr., Linn. Ent. ix, 1854, 



p. 24. 



The differences pointed out by Suffrian between this species 

 and his 0. herbsti are so slight that it is impossible to look upon 

 them as more than varietal. Suffrian says that the present insect 

 is intermediate between C. guttifer and C. herbsti ; in size it agrees 

 with the last-named species and also in most of the other 

 characters, except that the elytral spots are rather larger and 

 the posterior spot placed rather more forward. It is impossible 

 to distinguish them from these slight differences, as everything 

 else is similar, and many intermediate specimens occur that could 

 be referred to either species. 



The habitat of C. pulvillatus is given as the Himalayas, 



