218 Mr. J. S. Baly's descriptions of 



punctured; the extreme basal border narrowly edged 

 with black. Scutellum elongate-trigonate, its apex acute, 

 its base bilobed, narrowly edged with black. Elytra not 

 broader at the base than the thorax, very slightly attenu- 

 ated towards the apex, convex, regularly punctate-striate ; 

 interspaces plane, very minutely and somewhat sparingly 

 punctured, covered with very finely impressed, irregular 

 strise. Prosternum oblong, the anterior margin distinctly 

 produced, obliquely deflexed; the sides sinuate in front, 

 parallel posteriorly, the hinder apex truncate, slightly 

 concave, the lateral angles acute, rectangular. Unguiculi 

 black. 



Grenus Cryptocephalus, Geoif. 

 Cryptocephalus Jansoni. 



Oblongus, subcylindricus, niger, nitidus, pygydio apice 

 flavo-albo; capite crasse punctato, utrinque puncto infra 

 ociilum flavo ; thorace sat for titer, subremote punctato; 

 margine basali, vittis duabus latis, intus plus minusve 

 excavatis, ante apicem abbreviatis, et utrinque puncto 

 intra marginem, nigris ; elytris piceo punctatis, punctis ad 

 basin et prope suturam in striis biseriatis, conftise dis- 

 positis ; margine basali, linea suturali et utrisque maculis 

 duabus, una supra callum humerale, alteraque pone medium 

 positis, nigris. 



Var. A. Capitis punctis flavis obsoletis. 

 „ B. Elytrorum macula postica obsoleta. 



Long. 3 — 3^ lin. 



Hah. — China, Shantung. 



Head rugose-punctate ; clypeus campanulate, its apical 

 margin slightly concave ; antennse nearly equal to the 

 length of the body in the $ , shorter in the ? ; black, the 

 apex of the basal and the whole of the second joints 

 obscure piceous. Thorax rather more than one- half 

 broader than long at the base ; sides rounded and converg- 

 ing from base to apex, nearly parallel at the extreme base ; 

 hinder margin concave on either side, medial lobe broadly 

 emarginate; above convex, finely punctured on the disk, 

 more coarsely so on the sides ; basal lobe slightly reflexed. 

 Scutellum smooth, subtrigonate, its apex broadly truncate, 

 its base bilobate. Elytra scarcely broader than the base 

 of the thorax, quadrate-oblong, sides only moderately 

 lobed; convex, slightly thickened round the hinder part of 

 the scutellum, slightly excavated at the base, finely but 



