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CHRYSOMELIDiE. 
short and globose, deeply impressed in front of scutellnm, lateral 
margins feebly curved, distinctly margined, surface nearly im- 
punctate. Scutellum elongate, narrow. Elytra rather flat, 
shoulders subtuberculate, suture near scutellum raised ; epipleural 
lobes long ; surface deeply punctate-striate, interstices slightly 
raised, lateral interstices more strongly so, very finely and 
remotely punctured. Pygidium slightly convex at middle ; 
prosternum broadly produced at middle, posterior angles blunt 
and short. 
Length 5 mm. 
Hcib. India. 
Much larger than C. liecticus , Eabr., with stronger elytral 
pun duration. 
389. Cryptocephalus fraternus, Duviv. Ann. Soc. Ent. Bek/, xxxvi, 
1892, p. 404. 
Pale fulvous ; eyes, mandibles and two small spots on thorax 
black. 
Head feebly impressed and longitudinally grooved ; clypeus 
deeply and angularly emarginate in front ; vertex strongly, lower 
portion more finely, punctured ; antennae with terminal joints 
slightly darkened, not extending beyond middle of body, third 
joint twice as long as second, third and fourth equal, following 
joints slightly longer and feebly triangularly dilated. Thorax 
twice as broad as long, posterior augles very short, pointed ; 
surface impunctate, the spots placed at middle, separated by a 
space one and a half times wider than are the spots on the sides. 
Scutellum rounded at sides, smooth, extreme base dark brown. 
Elytra with scutellar space slightly raised, feebly impressed below 
shoulders, very deeply punctate- striate, interior of punctures 
darker, puncturation towards apex finer. Pj'gidium subrugose, 
rounded at apex, very finely pubescent. Beneath finely punctured 
and pubescent, except at the sides of metasternum which are 
deeply punctured ; prosternum not prolonged in front. 
2 . Last abdominal segment with a deep central fovea and a 
smaller fovea at each side. 
Length 7 mm. 
Hcib. Bengal : Mandar. 
Closely allied to C. fatuus, Suffr., but differs in being more 
elongate and narrow, in the angularly emarginate clypeus and in 
the spotted thorax, the latter also more narrowed anteriorly than 
in 0. fatuus. Pygidium of C. fatuus is more rounded at apex ; the 
abdominal fovea of the female is less deep and the lateral foveae 
are smaller. 
Differs from C. andreivesi in the nearly unicolorous antennae, 
u on-costate elytra, &c. 
