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CHRYSOMELIDiE. 
Femora and tibiae more or less stained with pale piceous or 
fulvous. Prosternum subquadrate. 
Length 21 mm. 
Hah. India: Pusa (Colls. Lefroy 4* Jacoby). 
A peculiarly marked species which cannot be mistaken for any 
other. 
Elytra fulvous with 'paler spots or stripes (sometimes a small 
humeral spot only). 
375. Cryptocephalus obscurG-maculatus, sp. n. 
Black ; basal joints of antennae fulvous ; thorax reddish with 
transverse patch at base ; elytra fulvous, with obscure, elongate, 
flavous spots ; tarsi fulvous. 
2 ■ Head black, closely and strongly punctured ; inner margins 
of eyes and labrum fulvous ; basal six joints of antennae fulvous, 
first basal joint black above, rest wanting in the type and only 
specimen. Thorax obscure flavous, strongly transverse, narrowed 
at sides ; surface extremely minutely punctured, posterior angles 
with two or three distinct teeth ; a central longitudinal line flavous, 
rest of disc reddish-fulvous, a transverse anteriorly deeply sinuate 
black patch or band at middle of base. Scutellum black, broadly 
elongate, apex truncate. Elytra with five double rows of strong 
and deep punctures, sixth and seventh rows the shortest, joined at 
apex, the other rows similarly joined ; alternate interstices marked 
with very pale longitudinal bands or spots of irregular shape. 
Pygidium and body beneath black, extreme base and apex of tibiae 
fulvous. Prosternum fulvous, pointed at the posterior angles ; 
anterior coxae fulvous. 
Length 5| mm. 
Hab. Southern India (Coll. Brit. Mus.). 
Allied to C. sanclrocottus, Suffr. and C. calanus , Suffr., but distin- 
guished by the colour of the head, thorax and legs and other 
details ; in some specimens the flavous elytral spots are entirely 
obsolete. These are the only specimens with geminate punctate 
elytra. 
376. Cryptocephalus sandrocottus, Sutfr. Monogr., Linn. Ent. ix, 
1854, p. 71 ; id. t. c. xiv, 1860, p. 37. 
Dark fulvous above, spotted with flavous ; underside and legs 
flavous ; thorax and elytra with numerous elongate flavous spots 
and stripes. 
Head flavous, closely and strongly punctured, with narrow 
central groove, a longitudinal stripe at middle dark brown ; antennae 
robust, basal four joints flavous, rest black, third and fourth 
equal, following joints widened but elongate. Thorax dark brown, 
rather short and transverse, extremely minutely punctured, extreme 
