CKEPIDO.DEKA. 235 



Key to the iSpecies. 



1. Elytra and apex of antennae black, 



the rest brown C. nigripennis, Motsc-h., p. 237 . 



No such combination of colours . . 2. 



2. Insect entirely yellow C. minuta, Jac, p. 235. 



Insect not entirely yellow 3. 



3. Insect tawny brown, with the suture 



and lateral margins obscure 



fuscous C. obscurofasciata, Jac, p. 236. 



Insect with the elytra metallic-blue C. orientalis, Jac, p. 236. 



While it lias been possible to include Motschulsky's species 

 nigripennis in the above table, his species affinis is omitted owing 

 to the inadequacy of the description and uncertainty as to its 

 identity ; remarks on it will be found on p. 237. 



168. Crepidodera minuta, Jacoby. 



Crepidodera minuta, Jac, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1887, p. 90. 



Entirely browjnisb -yellow ; antennae, elytra, and legs paler ; 

 eyes black. 



Head broad, impunctate, frontal elevations distinct though not 

 very prominent. Antennae about two-thirds the length of the 

 body ; first segment long and thickened, second equally thickened 



-big. 84. — Crepidodera minuta, ela 



but shorter, third, fourth, fifth and sixth thinner and almost 

 equal in length; the seventh to the eleventh are thicker and 

 equal in length, the last pointed. Prothorax slightly broader 

 than long, somewhat narrowed at the hind angles, anterior and 

 posterior margins more or less straight, all the angles rounded, 

 the edges of l he sides serrated; surface coin ex and deeply and 

 closely punctate, antebasal impression moderately deep, almost as 

 broad as the basal margin and not terminated on each side by a 

 longitudinal impressed line (the absence of the longitudinal 

 impressed lines is unusual in this genus). Smtellum small, broadly 

 triangular, smooth and impunctate. Elytra somewhat broader at 



