CRYPTOCEPHALUS. 
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widened, terminal joint with pointed appendage. Thorax strongly 
transverse and convex, sides widened at middle, rounded ; surface 
impunctate, anterior margin narrowly, anterior half of lateral 
margins more broadly, bright flavous, this colour forms an angle 
with the black portion at sides. Scutellum elongate, with longi- 
tudinal groove at base. Elytra rather strongly punctate-striate, 
longitudinally depressed within the shoulders, puncturation nearly 
obsolete at apex, the flavous band narrowed at the sides but ex- 
tending nearly to base at sutural portion, its upper edge oblique, 
lower one strongly sinuate, the apical spot narrowly edged with 
black. Body and legs black ; upper portion of breast, prosternum 
and extreme base of posterior femora flavous ; anterior portion of 
prosternum acutely produced. 
Length 6 mm. 
Hab. Burma : Karennee. Type in Genoa Mus. 
354. Cryptocephalus quadrillium, Suffr. Monoyr ., Linn. Ent. xiv,. 
1860 , p. 21 . 
Dark red ; two spots on thorax and the elytra black, the latter 
with two large round red spots (1 . 1). 
“ Of elongate shape, narrowed posteriorly ; head finely punc- 
tured, shining red, a spot below base of antennae black; antennae 
with basal joints fulvous, rest black, third joint twice, fourth, 
three times longer than second. Thorax short, posterior margin 
serrate, narrowly black, median lobe short, surface very shining, 
impunctate, the two spots placed at middle, close together. 
Scutellum red, triangular. Elytra about two and a half times longer 
than the thorax, humeral elevations round, large, lateral lobes 
strongly produced ; surface black, finely punctate-striate, more or 
less indistinct near apex, reflexed margin of epipleurae at base, and 
two well-defined spots, one before, the other behind the middle, 
red ; the first spot somewhat transverse, the suture in front of the 
spot with a small elongate mark, lower spot round, close to suture, 
only separated by a narrow black margin.” (, Svffrian .) 
Tjengih mm. 
Hab. Madras. 
Described by Suffrian from a specimen without abdomen ; no 
similarly marked species has come under my observation. 
355. Cryptocephalus sikhimensis, sp. n. 
Black ; head and basal joints of the antennae pale flavous, 
thorax and legs darker; elytra black, apex pale flavous. 
Subcylindrical and parallel-sided. Head impunctate, yellowish- 
white ; eyes very broadly emarginate ; antennae black, extending 
beyond middle of elytra, basal four joints flavous, third and 
fourth joints equal, shorter than fifth, terminal joints slightly 
thickened. Thorax twice as broad as long, sides nearly straight, 
