CRYPTOCEPHALUS. 
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clothed with yellow pubescence ; antennae extending to two-thirds 
the length of elytra, basal four joints fulvous, rest black, third 
and fourth joints equal. Thorax more than twice as broad as long, 
sides rounded and narrowed in front, narrowly margined, posterior 
border slightly sinuate in front, surface impunctate, extreme basal 
margin obscure flavous. Scutellum distinctly foveolate at base. 
Elytra slightly constricted at sides behind the middle, each with 
ten rows of pieeous punctures, the sixth and seventh rows shorter 
than the others (subsutural row excepted), interstices very finely 
transversely wrinkled. Legs black, clothed with whitish pubes- 
cence, upper portion of breast, flavous. 
Length 5-6 mm. 
Hob. Burma : Karennee. 
Distinguished from similarly coloured species by the pubescent 
black head. 
362. Cryptocephalus signatellus, sp. n. 
Black ; anterior and lateral margins of thorax and elytra flavous, 
a broad sutural black band on the elytra, truncate before apex ; 
legs fulvous. 
Head with a few fine punctures, opaque, middle with a narrow- 
transverse dentate pale stripe between eyes; clypeus not separated; 
labrum black, prominent ; emargination of eyes round, not very 
deep, somewhat raised; antennae very slender, black, basal two 
joiuts obscure fulvous, fourth and following joints very elongate 
and slender. Thorax scarcely twice as broad as long, strongly 
narrowed anteriorly, extremely finely but not very closely 
punctured, very shining ; anterior margins very narrowly, lateral 
broadly, flavous. Scutellum broad, triangular. Elytra nearly 
parallel, strongly and deeply punctured, interstices rather convex 
and finely wrinkled, a broad sutural band, abbreviated at some 
distance from apex, and the suture below this band, black, 
shoulders with black spot. Prosternum longer than broad, carinate 
in front, the latter fulvous, posterior angles acutely produced into 
teeth. 
Length 3\ mm. 
Hah. Hilgiris (Coll. H. E. Andrewes). 
Hot unlike C , bomhayensis, Jac., but the sutural band perfectly 
straight and truncate before apex. 
363. Cryptocephalus heraldicus, Snffr. Monoyr., Linn. Ent. ix, 1854, 
p. 145. 
5 . “Elavous ; metasternum and abdomen black ; elytra flavous, 
narrowly margined with black, an elongate brownish band parallel 
with margins and a bilobafe broad longitudinal black band at 
suture ; pygidium black. 
“ Of elongate shape ; head smooth ; clypeus separated at sides 
only, rugosely punctured anteriorly ; antennae slender, third joint 
