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C HR Y SOM ELI D iE . 
shining. Scutellnm strongly raised, broadly triangular, basal 
margin piceous. Elytra wider than thorax, slightly narrowed 
behind shoulders and widened again, raised round scutellum, 
shoulders elongate, prominent, epipleural lobes well marked; surface 
rather strongly punctate-striate below base, interstices distinctly 
raised, very finely punctured anteriorly only, very shining, the 
humeral spot sometimes prolonged into a band towards scutellum, 
posterior band triangularly emarginate at suture in front, leaving 
apex only narrowly flavous, extending obliquely outwards nearly 
as far as the humeral spot and occupying posterior half of elytra. 
Pygidium finely punctured, flavous, as are also the underside and 
legs ; prosternum produced and hollow in front, posterior angles 
acutely pointed.” ( Suffrian .) 
Length 2-1—2 1 mm. 
Hah. Southern India. 
Belonging to a group that has the thorax strongly narrowed in 
front and deeply depressed posteriorly, the antennae very long and 
the elytral puncturation strongly marked. 
360. Cryptocephalus ineditus, sp. n. 
Head, thorax and legs pale flavous ; antennae and underside 
black ; elytra black, a narrow transverse band at middle yellowish- 
white. 
Head impunctate, very pale, with a short groove at vertex ; eyes 
rather closely approximate at top, very broadly angularly emargi- 
nate ; clypeus deeply depressed at middle ; basal two or three joints 
of antennae flavous, third joint slightly shorter than fourth, 
following very slender and elongate. Thorax but moderately 
convex, narrowed in front, sides straight, posterior margin not 
visibly serrate, surface impunctate. Scutellum flavous, base black, 
with fovea. Elytra finely and closely punctate-striate, narrow 
and parallel, the pale band placed at middle and slightly widened 
at sides. Posterior legs sometimes piceous ; femora very robust 
and thick. 
Length 2-2 1 mm. 
Hah. Burma : Ruby Mines (Coll. Brit. Mus.). 
'? ^Almost identical in coloration and shape with C. elegans, but the 
elytral band at not behind the middle, and the abdomen black. In 
some specimens the anterior portion of the thorax is stained with 
pale fulvous, leaving the margins and two large oblique patches 
at base pale flavous ; the antennae in the male extend nearly to 
the apex of elytra. 
361. Cryptocephalus feae, Jac. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova , xxxii, p. 891 
(1892). 
Beneath black ; above and the tibiae fulvous, extreme base of 
thorax flavous ; basal margin of elytra flavous, edged with black. 
Head finely and sparingly punctured, black, intraocular space 
