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CHKYSOMELIDJE. 
specimen available for examination, wanting). Thorax not longer 
than broad, very moderately constricted, the anterior portion 
broadly rounded, only slightly prominent, bounded at the sides by 
a short transverse sulcus, the basal grooves shallow, placed rather 
close to the base, the surface with two rows of punctures on the 
middle. Scutellum nearly black, covered with yellow pubescence. 
Elytra without any basal depression, the punctures moderately 
strong at the base, rather fine below the latter but distinct up to 
the apex, rather distantly placed, the interstices fiat. Body 
beneath clothed with dense golclen-yellow pubescence ; the legs 
dark fulvous : the apex of the posterior and the upper edge of 
the anterior femora piceous. 
Length 6 mm. 
Hah. India. 
A rather small species of dark brown colour, the elytra without 
distinct depression, the thorax without prominent angles and the 
legs bicolorous. 
142. Crioceris seminigra, Jac. Ann. Mus. Genova , xxv.ii, 1889, p. 153. 
Black beneath ; above fulvous or with anterior portion of elytra 
black. 
Head strongly constricted behind the eyes, lateral grooves deep, 
vertex of the head with a narrow central groove ; eyes deeply 
notched; antennas extended to just below the base of the elytra 
in the male, shorter in the female, the basal four joints short, the 
next and following joints suddenly and strongly transversely 
widened. Thorax scarcely longer than broad, deeply and broadly 
excavated at the sides, the cavity not bounded by a ridge above, 
anterior angles rounded, with a minute tubercle, the basal sulcus 
shallow, the disc with a single row of fine punctures at middle. 
Scutellum rather elongate. Elytra with a feeble depression below 
the base, strongly punctured at the base, more or less finely 
posteriorly, a subquadrate space below the shoulders impunctate. 
Beneath and the legs fulvous, more or less marked with or nearly 
all black. 
Hah. Burma: Bhamo, Teinzo, Rangoon ; Tenasserim : Meetan. 
Independent of the coloration, this species may be known by the 
strongly enlarged fifth and following joints of the antennae, which 
is much more pronounced in it than it is in C. semipunctata or 
C. impressa ; these organs are also very short in the female, scarcely 
extended to the base of the thorax, and only slightly longer in 
the male. 
143. Crioceris locuples, Clark, App. Cat. Phytoph. 18G6, p. 64. 
Dark brown ; antennae fulvous. 
Head strongly constricted posteriorly, the vertex with a shallow 
groove and a few punctures ; antennae very long and slender, 
the third joint much shorter than the fourth, the following 
joints elongate, cy indrical. Thorax somewhat longer than 
