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CHRYSOMELIDjE. 
sternum rather transverse, flavous, posterior angles strongly 
pointed. 
Length 3 mm. 
Hob. Northern India (Coll. Brit. Mus.). 
Allied to C. Icevissimus , Suffr., the thorax impunctate, elytra 
without humeral spot, the elytral puncturation strong, not extremely 
fine. 
386. Cryptoceplialus subcostatus, Jac. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xlviii, 
1904, p. 382. 
Elavous beneath, above fulvous ; thorax with two black spots ; 
elytra strongly punctate-striate, the interstices more or less longi- 
tudinally convex. 
Head flavous or testaceous, closely semirugose, punctate through- 
out ; labrum smooth ; mandibles nearly black ; antennae entirely 
fulvous, the third joint longer than the 
fourth, terminal joints widened, sub- 
triangular, last joint with an additional 
pointed appendage ; anterior edge of the 
clypeus only slightly concave. Thorax 
strongly deflexed at the sides, narrowed in 
front, the posterior angles acute but not 
much produced ; the disc impunctate, ful- 
vous, with two black spots, more widely 
separated from each other than are either 
of them from the lateral margins; scutellum 
rather broad, flavous, margined with black. 
Elytra not depressed below the base, 
fulvous, strongly punctate - striate, the 
punctures much finer near the apex, the 
interstices slightly convex, impunctate. 
Beneath and the legs pale flavous, the 
sides of the breast strongly punctured. Prosternum produced 
into a long projection anteriorly, deeply bilobed posteriorly ; 
pygidium flavous, finely rugose. 
Length 5-7 mm. 
Hab. Southern India : Auaimalai Hills. 
Closely allied to several similarly coloured Indian species, notably 
C. fraternus, Duviv. and C. anclreivesi, Jac., but distinguished 
from the former by the scarcely emarginate clypeus, the very 
closely punctured head and the structure of the prosternum ; 
from the latter species by the rather convex elytral interstices, 
colour of the antennae and the entirely flavous underside, also by 
the prosternum being pointed anteriorly instead of broadly 
rounded. C. fatuus, Suffr. has no thoracic spots, an elongate, 
triangular scutellum and finely punctured elytral interstices ; the 
prosternum also is broadly not pointedly produced. The female of 
Fig. 77. — Crypto- 
cephalus subcostatus 
