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CHRYSOMELIDiE. 
marked with a few fine punctures ; mandibles black ; palpi flavous ; 
antenme slender, basal five joints flavous, rest black, third joint 
distinctly shorter than fourth, fifth slightly longer. Thorax scarcely 
twice as broad as long, sides rounded, strongly narrowed in front ; 
surface scarcely perceptibly punctured, the sides marked by a 
broad flavous deeply emarginate band at middle aud a central 
longitudinal stripe of the same colour, the latter pointed at end, 
not quite extending to base. Scutellum black, apex rather 
broadly rounded. Elytra strongly and rather closely punctate- 
striate, punctures finer but distinct at apex, a transverse spot at 
base near scutellum, another at apex and two more rounded spots 
at middle, the outer one close to margin, the inner slightly lower 
nearer suture, all the spots flavous. Pygidium finely punctured, 
black, margined with flavous. Prosternum and last abdominal 
segment flavous, rest of underside black. 
d . Elytra more strongly punctured, interstices slightly convex. 
Length 4-5 mm. 
Hah. Himalayas ; Assam : Ivhasi Hills. 
Rather variable in regard to the markings, some specimens have 
some of the flavous elytral spots nearly confluent. The shape of 
the flavous bands of the thorax likewise varies in width, and the 
elytral puncturation is deeper in the <S than in the $ ; the d is 
also smaller in size. 
Elytra flavous with both spots and bands or spots only. 
343. Cryptocephalus unifasciatus, Jac. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova , 
xxvii, 1889, p. 161. 
Black ; basal joints of antennm fulvous ; elytra flavous, a spot 
on shoulders, a broad transverse band at middle and sutural and 
lateral margins posteriorly black. 
Head with a few fine punctures at middle, deeply transversely 
depressed between eyes ; the latter broadly subtriangularly emar- 
ginate ; clypeus rather closely and distinctly punctured ; basal four 
joints of antennoe fulvous, rest black, third joint slightly shorter 
than fourth, following joints elongate and slender. Thorax nearlv 
subcylindrical, very strongly convex, sides deeply deflexed, lateral 
margins nearly straight ; surface entirely impunctate, deep black, 
very shining. Scutellum not longer than broad, sides rounded, 
apex rather pointed, surface impunctate. Elytra broadly sub- 
cylindrical, without depression below base, finely and regularly 
punctate-striate, interstices flat, with a few fine punctures here 
and there ; basal portion to about one-third of its length flavous. 
followed by a broad transverse black band that extends to behind 
the middle, its anterior margin abruptly obliquely narrowed at sides, 
posterior margin straight ; apex of each elytron with a transverse 
flavous spot. Beneath and legs black or partly fulvous. 
Length 4 mm. 
Hub. Burma : Bhamo, Ivarennee. 
