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CHRYS0MELID2E. 
joints fulvous, first joint subquaclrate. Thorax twice as broad as 
long, sides straight, posterior angles distinct, basal margin feebly 
lobed, surface very smooth, with two large black spots placed 
transversely. Scutellum black, the apex sometimes fulvous. Elytra 
very finely punctured, the punctures only visible under a strong 
lens, rather regularly arranged in rows ; the spots large, sub- 
quadrate, the basal spot not quite extending to basal margin, the 
other behind the middle sometimes slightly constricted at its 
inner margin. Anterior legs more elongate than the others, the 
first joint of their tarsi as long as the following two united. 
Fig. 68. — Ceratobasis nair. 
5 . Of more oblong-ovate shape, the head smaller, the basal 
joint of antennse more slender, thorax shorter, more narrowed in 
front, the legs less elongate and the tarsi equal. 
Var. a. Eyes with black orbits, thorax entirely fulvous. 
Var. b. Head as in var. a. Elytra with a humeral spot, the 
other markings as in the type. 
Var. c. Elytra black, narrowly margined with fulvous. 
Length 4— 4| mm. 
Hob. Bombay ; Malabar; Nilgiris. 
A common and rather widely distributed Indian species ; var. c 
has been obtained on the Nilgiris and w T as not previously 
known. 
297. Ceratobasis kcenigii, Fab. (Cryptocephalus) Syst. Ent. 1775, 
p. Ill; ELubner (Cryptocephalus), Naturf or seller, xxiv, 1789, 
p. 41, pi. 2, fig. 5 ; Fabr. (Clythra) Ent. Syst., Suppl. ] 798, p. 114 ; 
Lacord. (Clythra-Ceratobasis) Mon. Phytoph. ii, 1848, p. 364. 
Eulvous ; breast, abdomen, labrum, two spots on head, and 
antennse (base excepted) black. Elytra with two bluish-black 
spots at base, the outer one the smallest. 
Rather shorter and more cylindrical than C. nair. Head very 
smooth, a spot near inner margin of eves black; clypeus not 
separated, rather deeply emarginate ; eyes ovate, nearly entire ; 
