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near the scutelluin is pale flavous, but the scutellum itself is 

 always black ; the female is larger but does not generally differ 

 otherwise ; exceptionally the head is black with a flavous border 

 near the eyes. I know no other similarly marked species. I 

 received four specimens from M. Clavareau from Brussels. 



456. Cryptocephalus darjilingensis, sp. n. 



Pale fulvous ; anteuna3, the basal joints excepted, black ; elytra 

 bright flavous, margins narrowly and three spots on each (2 . 1) 

 black. 



Head with narrow central longitudinal groove at vertex, im- 

 puuctate, very shining ; emarginaiion of eyes shallow and broad ; 

 clypeus triangular, iinpunctate ; antennae with third and fourth 

 joints slender, equal, following joints gradually widened but not 

 shorter, basal four flavous, rest black. Thorax short and trans- 

 verse, of nearly equal width, only slightly narrowed anteriorly, 

 entirely impunctate. Scutellum triangular, small, fulvous, black 

 at base. Elytra of equal width, subcylindrical, finely punctate- 

 striate, the punctures piceous ; interstices broad and flat, impunc- 

 tate and shiuing, all margins narrowly black ; two elongate spots 

 at base touching basal margin, one at shoulders, the other near 

 scutellum, a larger subquadrate spot near apex between third and 

 seventh row of punctures. Prosternum subquadrate, not produced 

 at anterior margin, posterior angles blunt. 



Length 2 mm. 



Hub. Darjeeling (Coll. Belgian Mus.). 



One of the smallest species and sufficiently distinct by its style 

 of coloration, the transverse, scarcely widened thorax and irapunc- 

 tate head. I have only seen a single male specimen kindly sent 

 by M. Clavareau from Brussels. 



457. Cryptocephalus decurio, Suffr. Monogr., Linn. Ent. xiv, 1860, 

 p. 27. 



Dark red ; two spots on thorax and four on elytra (2 . 2) black, 

 posterior spots obliquely placed. 



Size, colour and pattern of elytra similar to those of C. sex- 

 signatus ; rather more robust, shorter and more strongly convex, 

 disc of thorax more highly raised; the head with a few fine 

 punctures only, without pubescence ; the elytral punctures at 

 middle distinctly stronger; the interstices raised, those below 

 shoulders nearly costate, scarcely a trace of transverse wrinkles ; 

 the inner of the posterior elytral spots is placed much more 

 forward and before the middle of the elytra, but slightly less 

 approximate to the suture than to the corresponding spot of first 

 row ; last abdominal segment of female with a large round fovea. 

 Male unknown. 



" From C. bissevsignatus, the species differs in the markings of 



