CUYPTOCEPKAJiUS. 
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the present species is much larger, the antennae are much shorter 
with the third and following joints nearly equal, and the thorax 
much more transverse. 
387. Cryptoceplialus andrewesi, Jac. Ann. Soc. Ent. Bely, xxxix, 1895, 
p. 267. 
Fulvous, spotted with black below, terminal joints of antennae 
black ; thorax with two black spots, sides flavous. 
Head deeply punctured ; clypeus flavous, impunctate ; eyes 
broadly emarginate; labrum piceous; an- 
tennae black, basal five joints fulvous, 
third and fourth equal. Thorax twice 
as broad as long, sides evenly rounded, 
strongly narrowed in front; surface en- 
tirely impunctate, dark fulvous, two black 
spots placed at middle but widely sepa- 
rated, sides narrowly obscure flavous, 
posterior margin serrate, edged with black. 
IScutellum pale fulvous, margined with 
deeply punctate-striate, punctures very 
fine near suture at apex, interstices 
impunctate, longitudinally costate at sides, 
shoulders scarcely prominent. Sides of 
breast and the abdominal segments 
more or less spotted with piceous, finely pubescent. Prosternum 
longer than broad, longitudinally concave, base bilobed ; anterior 
margin strongly produced and concave. 
Length 4-5 mm. 
Hob. Southern Bombay : Belgaum. 
Evidently allied to C. circumclucius , Suffr. but much larger. 
C. fatuus , Suffr. differs in being paler, the thorax has no spots and 
the elytral interstices are finely punctured. Lastly, C. fraternus, 
Euv. is described as having widened terminal joints of the an- 
tennae, an unspotted thorax, no elytral costa and differently formed 
prosternum. 
piceous. Elytra slightly narrowed pos- 
teriorly, not depressed below the base, 
Cryptoceplialus andrewesi. 
388. Cryptocephalus fatuus, Suffr. Monoyr., Linn. Ent. xiv, 1860, 
p. 43 ; J Veise, Lent. ent. Zeit. 1903, p. 30. 
Pale yellow ; elytra with basal margin paler. 
Head with a few punctures, central groove fine ; antennae 
yellow, scarcely darker at apex, extending beyond middle of body, 
third and fourth joints equal, each about two and a half times 
longer than the second, terminal six distinctly widened. Thorax 
