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a distinct fovea ; elytra slightly constricted at the sides below 

 the middle, with ten rows of piceous punctures of which the 

 sixth and seventh are shorter than the rest (the subsuturai row 

 excepted), the interstices very finely transversely wrinkled, the 

 colour the same as that of the thorax , the basal margin nar- 

 rowly Havous and edged with black ; underside and legs black , 

 clothed with whitish pubescence, the upper portion of the breast, 

 flavous, the tibiae fulvous. 



Garin Gheba, May, December. 



This species seems allied in coloration to C. cinnaharinus^ Suffr. 

 but differs in the black pubescent head. 



32. Cryptoceplialus ila>^ieixietus , n. sp. 



Broad, robust, black, the 'thorax impunctate, the anterior and 

 lateral margins ilavous; elytra strongly punctate-striate, black, 

 a broad transverse band at the middle and an apical spot on 

 each elytron, bright flavous. 



Length 3 lines. 



Of broad and robust shape, the head very flat, black, finely 

 punctured and sparingly pubescent, the space in front of the 

 eyes below their emargination, and the labrum, flavous, antennae 

 extending to two thirds the length of the elytra, black, the 

 basal joint flavous below, the third and fourth joints equal, the 

 following ones rather triangularly widened , the terminal joint 

 with a pointed appendage; thorax strongly transverse and con- 

 vex, the sides rounded, rather widened at the middle, the surface 

 entirely impunctate, shining, black, the anterior margin narrowly 

 and the anterior half of the lateral ones more broadly, bright fla- 

 vous, this colour forming an angle with the black portion at the 

 sides ; scutellum elongate, black, with a longitudinal groove at 

 the base ; elytra rather strongly punctate-striate, with a longi- 

 tudinal depression within the shoulders, the punctuation nearly 

 obsolete at the apex, the yellow band narrowed at the sides 

 but extending nearly to the base at the suturai portion , its 

 upper edge oblique, the lower one strongly sinuate, the apex 



