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CHRYSOMELII>.. 



the middle between third and ninth row. Pygidium and last abdo- 

 minal segment flavous. Prosternum produced at middle of anterior 

 margin, posterior angles short, fulvous ; legs fulvous. 



Length 4 mm. 



Jfab. Kashmir ; Punjab ; Khasi Hills (Coll. Jacoby). 



As this species, of which five specimens are before me of both 

 sexes, differs from any of those described by Suffrian, I must con- 

 sider it distinct. The differences consist in the black sutural elytral 

 band extending quite to the base, in the large elytral spots, and 

 the flavous pygidium and similarly coloured last abdominal seg- 

 ment ; in the female the head has a small black central spot at the 

 vertex ; the thoracic spots are sometimes posteriorly pointed, the 

 inner elytral spot near suture is always placed below base. 

 C. obconicvs, Suffr. is 3 mm. in length, has a partly black head and 

 pygidium, abdomen black except at sides, and different elytral 

 puncturatiou, sutural margins very narrowly black, &c. 



455. Cryptocephalus zonalis, sp. n. 



Head and body beneath more or less black ; thorax fulvous with 

 two black spots ; elytra fulvous, a transverse band at base, and 

 another at apex, and the extreme sutural margins, black ; legs 

 fulvous. 



Head rugosely punctured, dark fulvous with two large black 

 spots and a central black band between eyes at vertex, surroundings 

 of eyes pale ; the latter closely approximate 

 at apex, broadly but not deeply angulate- 

 emarginate ; clypeus subtriangular ; an- 

 tenna? black, extending beyond middle of 

 elytra, basal four joints fulvous, third and 

 fourth equal, terminal joints gradually 

 widened. Thorax strongly convex, rather 

 short, impunctate, extreme margins flavous, 

 posterior margin black, a black spot at the 

 middle on each side. Scutellum. black. 

 Elytra narrowed posteriorly, strongly 

 punctate- striate, the striae closely placed 

 but the punctures well separated, distinct 

 and scarcely finer at apex, interstices finely 

 wrinkled here and there, the last two 

 convex . Prosternum flavous, longer than 

 broad, anterior margin produced in 

 front. 

 Length 3^-4^ mm. 



Hob. Ceylon : Kandy (Colls. Belgian Mus. and Jacoby). 

 From other transversely banded species the present form is 

 principally distinguished by the black apical band, if large placed 

 at extreme apex, or if smaller not quite extending to it and never 

 to the lateral margins, the transverse band at base touches the basal 

 but does not reach the lateral nor the sutural margins ; the suture 



Fig. 103. 

 Cryptocephalus zonalis. 



