ClilPTOCEPHALUS. 
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Head piceous or black, closely and almost rugosely punctured, a 
small spot at base of antennae and on the clypeus flavous ; 
antennae black, extending to middle of elytra, basal five joints 
fulvous, rather short. Thorax with rounded 
sides, very strongly and closely punctured, 
the punctures more closely placed at sides 
than at middle, interstices rugose and 
convex, except those at middle ; anterior 
margin narrowly, sides more broadly, fla- 
vous. Scutellnm flavous margined with 
piceous. Elytra without basal depression, 
strongly punctate-striate, punctures only 
slightly finer at apex, interstices minutely 
granulate ; a broad transverse band at base, 
not extending to sides and joined to a 
sutural band, widened at middle into a 
lozenge-shaped spot, black, this latter not 
extending to apex. Pygidium black, 
strongly punctured. Body beneath black, 
finely pubescent, anterior margin of breast 
flavous ; posterior femora with a black spot. 
Length 3 mm. 
Hah. Bombay: Belgaum. 
Fig. 75. — Grypio- 
cephalus bomhayensis. 
366. Crypt ocephalus belgaumensis, Jac. Ann. Soc. Ent. Bely, xxxix, 
1895, p. 265. 
Beneath flavous or pale fulvous, above black ; thorax with sides 
and anterior margin flavous ; elytra with a 
broad transverse band at base, another 
near apex and a spot below the shoulders 
bright flavous. 
Head closely punctured, flavous, de- 
pressed between the eyes, the latter broadly 
angularly notched ; antennae two-thirds 
the length of body, basal five joints 
flavous, rest black. Thorax strongly trans- 
verse and rather short, sides nearly 
straight, gradually narrowed anteriorly, 
posterior angles pointed ; surface black, 
anterior margin very narrowly, sides more 
broadly, and a narrow central stripe an- 
teriorly, flavous ; a shallow fovea at each 
side near scutelluin ; sides entirely finely 
strigose, the strigse changing into fine punc 
tures at base. Scutellum black, not longer than broad. Elytra 
not depressed below base, strongly punctate-striate, apical portion 
very minutely punctured, interstices longitudinally costate at 
VOL. I. 
Fig. 7 6. — Crypto- 
cephalus belgaumensis. 
