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it is one of the largest sized Cryptocephalus of which two spécimens 

 are before me, in one, there is only tlie middie spot of tlie thorax 

 présent and the spots are no doubt sometimes entirely absent. 



CRYPTOCEPHALUS IMITANS n. sp. 



FliIvous, head finely pubescent (ç^) or smooth (Ç), thorax impunc- 

 tate, elytra metallic blue, strongly punctate-striate, the interstices 

 more or less strongly raised, subcostate in the maie. 



Length 5-6 mill. 



At once distinguished from the preceding species by the fulvous 

 head, undersideand legs, the head in the maie closely and finely 

 punctured at the sides, each puncture provided with a short silvery 

 hair, the eyes broadly and subangularly notched, antennae fulvous, 

 the seventh and eighth darker at the apex, the rest wanting, fourth 

 joint longer than the third but distinctly shorter^than the fifth joint ; 

 thorax with the sides nearly stralght, obliquely narrowed towards 

 the apex, the basai margin finely serrate, the médian lobe three- 

 dentate, the surface reddish-fulvous, impunctate, the extrême 

 basai margin blackish, scutellum black, elytra with closely 

 approached rows of deep, somewhat transversely shaped punctures, 

 metallic bright blue, the interstices distinctly longitudinally 

 costate; below fulvous, finely pubescent, legs rather robust, 

 prosternum subquadrate. 



Hah. Diego Suarez. 



I am probably correct when I look upon the larger spécimens 

 which I received from M. Clavareau as representing the females of 

 this species, from the maies of which they differ besides the size in 

 the impubescent head and the less strongly convex interstices of 

 the elytra; the antennae are entirely fulvous with the terminal 

 joints slightly widened, other différences of importance I cannot 

 find. 



Cryptocephalus perelegans Fairm. (Belgian Annales 1897). 



The name given to this species by M. Fairmaire having already 

 been used by Baly (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1873). I alter it hereby to 

 C. Fairmairei, 



EUMOLPID^ 



SYAGRUS LEFEVREI n. sp. 



Reddish-fulvous, the apical joints of the antennae, the knees and 

 the tarsi black, head and thorax nearly impunctate, sides of the last 



