CltYPTOCEPHALUS. 
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anteriorly ; mandibles black ; antennae very long and slender, 
basal four joints flavous, rest black, third and fourth joints equal. 
Thorax about one-half broader than long, strongly narrowed 
anteriorly, the sides straight, median lobe short, deeply bi-emar- 
ginate ; surface entirely impunctate, with a very slight depression 
each side near the scutellum, which is triangular, edged with 
black at base and with the usual fovea. Elytra rather broad and 
robust, shoulders prominent, the sutural space round scutellum 
raised ; the puncturation flue, not always regular but with some 
extra punctures here and there, the seventh and eighth rows (not 
counting the short subsutural one) more closely approximate and 
more irregular. Legs slightly darker than rest of body. Prosternum 
not produced in front, posterior angles pointed. Body beneath 
very finely punctured. 
5 . Larger and more robust ; last abdominal segment with deep 
cavity at middle. 
Length 4^-5 k mm. 
Hub. Assam ; Burma : Karen Hills, Bnby Mines (Coll. Brit. 
Mus.). 
Can be distinguished from C. cinncibarinus , Suffr. by the generally 
testaceous colour and many other differences of details, and from 
C. gestroi by the different elytral puncturation. 
381. Cryptoceplialus hampsoni, sp. n. 
Above pale fulvous ; antennae (basal joints excepted), underside 
and the legs more or less black ; anterior femora entirely or partly 
flavous. 
Head sparingly but distinctly punctured at middle ; clypeus 
transverse, subquadrate, finely punctured, separated from face by 
a transverse groove ; eyes very broadly emarginate ; mandibles 
black ; antennae with the basal three or four joints flavous, third 
and fourth equal. Thorax scarcely twice as broad as long, narrowed 
in front, entirely impunctate, basal margin very narrowly black, 
surface rather darker than elytra. Scutellum triangular, margined 
with black. Elytra strongly punctate-striate, the punctures 
piceous, distinct to apex although finer, extreme base and apex 
paler yellow, interstices with a few fine punctures here and there, 
also finely wrinkled near suture at base ; fifth and sixth rows of 
punctures the shortest, joined at apex, ninth row placed farther 
from the margin than the width between the other interstices. 
Eirst abdominal segment flavous at middle. Prosternum rugosely 
punctured, slightly produced anteriorly at middle, posterior margin 
obsoletely bidentate. 
Length 4 mm. 
Hab. Nilgiris ( Hampson — Coll. Brit. Mus.). 
This species also is allied to C. cinnabarinus , Suffr. but is smaller, 
not red above but flavous, the elytral puucturation not fine but 
strong and distinct to apex, the interstices not broad and smooth 
