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one or two rows of punctures visible ; the elytral puncturation is 
equally variable but generally rather strong over the base, 
gradually diminishing posteriorly. The colour varies from flavous 
or fulvous to piceous, and this applies equally to all the parts. The 
general shape of the insect is broad and robust ; the thorax has 
rounded anterior angles but sometimes these are furnished with a 
tubercle, almost justifying the separation of the specimens so 
modified as different species ; however, so many intermediate 
varieties occur that nothing is gained by dividing these forms. This 
species has an enormously extended range which makes it all the 
more difficult to fix on characters which are so variable, and which 
increase of material seems only to multiply. 
Length 7-10 mm. 
Hab. The whole continent of India ; Ceylon; Andaman Islands ; 
Nicobar Islands ; Malayan Islands ; Philippines ; China; Siam. 
140. Crioceris semipunctata, Fabr. Syst. Eleuth. i, 1801, p. 472 ; Jac 
P. Z. S. 1887, p. 68 ; Paly, Trans. Ent, iSoc. (3) iv, 1865, p. 29, 
pi. 1, fig. 1. 
Lema dehaani, Guer. Icon. Tt'cyne Anim., Ins. 1844, p. 261; Lacord. 
Mon. Phytopli. i, 1845, p. 559. 
Of brick-red or flavous colour; the antennas, body beneath and 
the legs piceous. 
Head strongly constricted posteriorly ; the vertex convex with 
a deep central groove ; antennae very robust, the terminal joints 
strongly subquadrately widened, the second to the fourth joints 
gradually broader. Thorax rather less depressed than in C. 
impressa , the anterior angles thickened and tuberculate at the 
sides, the disc with a single row of punctures (sometimes absent). 
Elytra with the basal portion strongly raised, this portion with 
several rows of strong punctures (each row of about 5 or 6 
punctures), the rest of the surface very finely punctate, the sides 
and apex nearly impunctate. Abdomen with patches of golden- 
yellow pubescence. 
Length 8-9 mm. 
Hab. India ; Ceylon ; Java. 
This species seems nearly as variable in regard to coloration 
and partly in sculpture as C. impressa. The Indian specimens 
cannot be separated as so many intermediate forms occur ; the 
smooth sides and apex of the elytra will however, best distinguish 
this species, but in Javan specimens the basal portions of these 
parts are generally more highly raised than in those from ludia. 
141. Crioceris pusilla, Clark, App. Cat. Phytopli. 1866, p. 68. 
Reddish-brown ; femora stained with aeneous. 
Head with a deep central groove, the vertex slightly raised, 
with a few fine punctures ; antennae with the third and fourth 
joints transversely subquadrate, the following three joints sub- 
quadrately widened, twice as long as broad (the rest, in the only 
