CRYPTOCEPHALUS. 
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Distinguished by the entirely black thorax and the single elytral 
black band, abruptly constricted at the sides. In some specimens 
the anterior legs and sides of the abdomen are more or less 
flavous. 
844. Cryptocephalus siinulans, sp. n. 
Head, sides of breast, legs and part of abdomen black ; thorax 
black, anterior margin and sides fulvous ; elytra fulvous, a humeral 
spot and a broad transverse band at middle strongly angulate 
anteriorly, black. 
Head very finely pubescent and punctured, depressed at middle ; 
eyes triangularly emarginate at middle ; 
anterior edge of clypeus and labrum 
fulvous ; antennae slender, black, basal 
four joints flavous, basal joint above 
and the others black, terminal joints 
not thickened. Thorax more than twice 
as broad as long, sides strongly obliquely 
narrowed in front, nearly straight ; sur- 
face im punctate, the sides rather broadly 
and the anterior margin very narrowly 
fulvous, rest of disc black, the lateral 
edge of this colour indented at middle. 
Scutellum trigonal, fulvous, margined 
with black. Elytra elongate, cylindrical, 
strongly punctate-striate, the punctures 
finer at base and apex : the humeral spot 
large, extending to the sides, the trans- 
verse black band with a slight bluish gloss, produced at the 
suture almost to the scutellum, abruptly and rather deeply con- 
stricted at sides, posterior edge concave. Breast at middle, first 
abdominal segments and extreme base of femora fulvous. Pro- 
sternum subquadrate, posterior margin deeply concave, the angles 
strongly produced. 
Length 6 mm. 
Hob. Travancore : Wallardi. Type in Coll. Jacoby. 
Very similar in coloration of the elytra to C. unifasciatus, 
Jac., but differs as follows : labrum fulvous, thorax much shorter 
and more transverse, sides and margin fulvous, black elytral band 
differently shaped, and humeral spot larger. The species was also 
obtained in a different locality. 
Tig. 74. 
Cryptocephalus simulans . 
345. Cryptocephalus posticalis, Jac. Ann. Soc. Ent. Bely, xxxix, 1895, 
p. 263. 
Black ; head fulvous at sides ; thorax fulvous, with two large 
confluent spots ; elytra fulvous, a transverse spot at base and the 
apical portion black. 
