280 Mr. J. S. Baly on the Phytophaga. 



four joints fuscous. Thorax one-third longer than broad at the base, its 

 apical border slightly produced, anterior angles obsolete ; upper surface 

 smooth, impressed at the base with a single fovea ; middle of disk im- 

 piessed with a double longitudinal row of very minute punctures, only 

 visible with a lens. Elytra much broader than the thorax, not quite 

 three times its length, sides parallel, above very convex, gibbous at the 

 base ; each elytron covered with about ten ill-defined interrupted rows 

 of large deeply impressed punctures, the interspaces thickened; the 

 piceous patches, the most considerable of which occupies the middle 

 of the outer disk and is attached to the lateral border, form over the 

 disk an ill-defined shining and impunctate network. Body beneath 

 stained on the neck and sides of thorax and breast with fuscous; 

 abdomen clothed with short adpressed silvery hairs ; all the segments 

 as far as the penultimate marked with three piceous spots, the anal 

 segment having only a single patch. Thighs incrassate, narrowed at 

 their base, hinder pair scarcely shorter than the abdomen ; four anterior 

 tibia? annulatcd with fuscous below their middle. 



Crioccris gibba. (Plate XIII. fig. 3.) 

 C. subelongata, parallela, nucea, nitida; antennis subfiliformibus, sat 

 robustis, articulis cylindricis ; thorace elongatulo, lateribus medio con- 

 strictis, apice producto, lsevi, disci medio tenuissime biseriatim punc- 

 tilio; elytris oblongis, basi sat gibbosis, profunde substriato-punctatis, 

 striis interruptis, iis prope suturam ab ante medium fere ad apicem 

 omnino deletis; corpore subtus, femoribua incrassatis (basi excepta), 

 tibiarum apice antenniscme (his basi pnetermissis) piceis. — Long. 4 lin. 

 Hub. China. 



Very similar to the preceding species, but differing in the greater 

 length and in the form of the antennae, in the longer body, and in the 

 entirely different arrangement of the puuctation of the elytra. Head 

 rather shorter than in C. Dromedarins ; antennae longer than half the 

 body, robust, subfiliform, indistinctly incrassate towards the apex ; four 

 or five terminal joints slightly incrassate, second, third, and fourth joints 

 short, submoniliform. Thorax equal in length, but more regularly con- 

 stricted on the sides, the constriction commencing at the angles and 

 extending the whole length of the side; in the other species the con- 

 striction commences a short distance from the angles, and is more 

 abrupt ; disk impunctate, with the exception of a double longitudinal 

 row of very fine punctures down the middle. Elytra oblong, parallel ; 

 the gibbosity slightly less raised than in the former species ; the punc- 

 tures on the surface as large and as deeply impressed, but arranged in a 

 different manner ; the striae from being more interrupted are less distinct, 

 and in addition the whole inner disk, from the base of the gibbosity 

 nearly to the apex of the elytra, is entirely free from punctures ; the 

 punctures here and there confluent. Thighs similar to those of C. 

 Dromcdarius ; body beneath sparingly covered with pubescence. 



