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DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW SPEGIES 

 OF INDIAN PHYTOPHAGOUS GOLEOPTERA 



by ilartin Jacoby. 



Crioceris multimaculata n. sp. — Flavous, the antennœ and 

 the hreast blaek, head with a hlack spot, thorax cylindrical, punetured 

 at the middle; elytra strongly punctate-striate, a suturai stripe, wide- 

 ned before and helow the middle^ a humerai spot, another below the 

 shoulders, a round one helow the middle and another spot near the 

 apex, hlack, apex of the iihiœ and the tarsi hlack, — Length, 

 2 1/2 mill. 



Head fulvous, the vertex with a black spot, impunctate, the 

 whole lower portion pubescent, antennae short and stout, black, the 

 terminal joints strongly thickened and widened, thorax subcylin- 

 drical, constrlcted near the base, the basai sulcus shallow, the sides 

 rounded and widened at the middle, the dise with a row of punc- 

 tures, some others are placed near the anterior angles, fulvous; 

 scutellum black; elytra strongly and deeply punctate-striate, 

 flavous, the suturai margin at the middle black, this colour widened 

 into a spot before and below the middle, another spot on the shoul- 

 ders, followed by a smaller one near the latéral margins, a round 

 spot below the middle and another larger one near the apex black ; 

 underside more or less fulvous, the sides of the breast black, the 

 knees, apex of the tibiae and the tarsi likewise black. 



Hah. Mandar Bengal (Gollect. Brussel Mus. and my own.). 



Closely allied to C, nigro-ornata Clark (nigro-picta Cl.) but partly 

 fulvous below instead of black and without the elongate pear- 

 shaped spot below the shoulders, also with an extra spot below the 

 middle, the head pubescent and marked with black, the gênerai 

 size smaller. 



Clythra SUturata n. sp. — Fulvous, the apical joints of the 

 antennœ, the tarsi and the hreast sometimes blackish, head with a 

 hlack spot, thorax impunctate, scutellum, hlack, elytra distinctly 

 punctate-striate anteriorly, the suture and the sides with a hlack hand 

 connected at the apex. — Length, 4-5 mill. 



Var. Head without the hlack spot, the elytral hands more or less 

 interrupted. 



Of narrowly elongate shape, the head impunctate, fulvous, the 

 vertex with a black spot, the middle with a small fovea, the cly- 

 peus not separated, its anterior margin slightly concave-emargi- 

 nate, antennae blackish, the lower three or four joints fulvous, the 



