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feeble and an anterior sulcus is also generally absent ; other 
characters as in Lema. 
Type. C. merdigera, Fabr., from Europe. 
Range. Universally distributed. 
Section I. 
Above pale or dark fulvous, or with partly fulvous and 
black elytra. 
13S. Crioceris malabarica, Jac. Ann. Soc.Ent. Bely, xlviii, 1904, p. 38L 
Dark fulvous ; beneath black, knees obscure fuscous. 
Head deeply constricted behind the eyes, sparingly punctured 
on the vertex ; eyes very deeply notched, this portion and the 
space in front pubescent, lateral grooves very deep ; antennae 
dark fulvous, extended to the base of the elytra only, terminal 
joints scarcely longer than broad. Thorax subquadrate, moderately 
constricted at the middle, the surface with a few punctures near 
the anterior margin and a single row on the middle. Scutellum 
narrow, fulvous. Elytra reddish-fulvous, with a shallow transverse 
depression below the base, finely punctate-striate except near 
the shoulders where the punctures are absent, the puneturation 
much stronger at the base near the suture, the lateral margins 
strongly raised. Underside black, clothed with yellow pubescence ; 
legs fulvous, knees darker. 
Length 9 mm. 
Hab. Malabar. 
Separated by the regular puncturing of the elytra from those 
species with only partly regular sculpture ; also by the different 
colour of the underside and legs from 0. badia, Lac. and 
C. ornophloides, Lac. 
139. Crioceris impressa, Fabr.Mant. Ins. i, 1787, p. 88; id.Ent.Syst. 
i, pt. 2, 1792, p. 6 ; Olivier, Enc. Meth. vi, 1791, p. 197 ; id. Entom. 
vi, 1808, p. 730, pi. 1 , fig. 4 ; Lcicord. Mon. Phytoph. i, 1845, p. 562; 
Italy, Trans. Ent. Soc. Bond. 1865, p. 32. 
Var. castanea, Lacord. Mon. Phytoph. i, 1845, p. 564. 
Var. crassicornis, Oliv. Ent. vi, 1808, p. 731, pi. 1, fig. 6. 
Var. ornophloides, Lacord. Mon. Phytoph. i, 1845, p. 564. 
Beneath fulvous or piceous with silvery patches ; thorax fulvous 
or black ; elytra fulvous or flavous. 
This is one of the most variable and widely distributed of all 
the species of the Chrysomelidce, scarcely two specimens are ever 
alike, and this does not only apply to coloration but also to 
sculpture. Some specimens are much narrower than others ; the 
head is either fulvous or black ; the antennae are sometimes much 
shorter than is the rule, also equally variable in colour as the 
other parts ; the puneturation of the thorax is generally rather 
close over the middle of the disc, but occasionally there are only 
