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fifth and following ones transversely serrate ; thorax about twice as 

 broad as long, the sides very slightly rounded, the médian lobe 

 truncate and but little produced, the surface entlrely impunctate, 

 scutellum triangular, black or fulvous; elytra regularly, rather 

 strongly and not very closely punctate-striate, the punctures rather 

 obsolète near the apex, a narrow suturai and latéral longitudinal 

 band bluish black, the band at the sides is rather pointed at the 

 base and extends round the apex where it joins the suturai band ; 

 underside fulvous, closed with yellow pubescence, the sides of the 

 breast and the tarsi more orless stained with black. 



Hah, Mandar and Barway, Bengal (Brussel Mus. and my own). 



One of the smallest species of the genus aad allied to C. occipitalis 

 Jac. from the same locality but at once distinguished by the strong 

 and regular elytral ponctuation and the two black bands, the dozend 

 spécimens before me show some amount of variation in the 

 absence of the spot on the vertex of the head and the length of the 

 elytral bands. 



Cryptocephalus sanguinolentus Oliv., var. Lowii Suffr. — 

 This variable species bas been originally described by Olivier from 

 Africa and by Sufïrian from India and his variety Lowii again from 

 Old Galabar, but it remained somewhat doubtful whether the species 

 had really this wide geographical distribution. Spécimens which 

 bave now been submitted to me by the Brussels Muséum, obtained 

 by M. Cardon in Mandar, Bengal, prove that the insect is certainly 

 Identical with the one of African origin and of which I possess 

 many spécimens, the only différence I am able to detect in some 

 female spécimens is that the antennse are very short (extending 

 just beyond the thorax) and entirely fulvous, while the same organs 

 in most of the African individuals bave their apical joints black, the 

 coloration is of course as variable as in most species of Gryptoce- 

 phali but structural différences I cannot find. In Gemminger's 

 Catalogue Africa alone is given as the « habitat » of this species. 



Heteraspis Blanch (Scelodonta Westw.). 



M"^ Gahan bas kindly drawn my attention to the fact that the genus 

 Heteraspis of Blanch. bas been entirely mistaken by Chapuis as well 

 as by Lefèvre and that it is identical with Scelodonta Westw. If 

 Blanchard's description in Dejean's Catalogue and his remarks on 

 the « habitat » of the genus is read it will be seen that Africa and 

 India is given as the countries inhabited by Heteraspis which can 

 only apply to Scelondonta as no species of Heteraspis of our présent 

 Catalogues is found in Africa ; Blanchard moreover quoted as types 



