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CHRYSOMELIDiE. 
shining ; a broad transverse black band at base, its posterior edge 
somewhat obsolete but extended downwards at the sides to as 
far as the middle, therefore deeply concave within the humeral 
portion. 
Length 2| mm. 
Hob. Bengal. 
Suffrian compares this species with C. vahli, from which it 
differs in its smaller size, the strong elytral puncturation distinct 
to apex and dark epipleural lobes. 
400. CryptocephalllS deficiens, Sup-. Monoyr., Linn. Ent. ix, 1854, 
p. 146. 
Black ; clypeus, basal joints of antennae and legs flavous ; elytra 
with the anterior half flavous, the rest black. 
Head finely rugose between the eyes and closely pubescent ; 
the latter rather closely approximate at the top, triangularly 
emarginate at middle; clypeus nearly smooth, emarginate in 
front ; labrum and palpi flavous ; antennae slender, basal four 
joints flavous, rest black, third and following joints nearly equal. 
Thorax rather strongly narrowed anteriorly, the sides very 
narrowly margined ; the disc entirely impunctate, very shining. 
Scutellum black, triangular. Elytra rather strongly punctate- 
striate, the punctures distinct to apex, the flavous anterior half 
gradually widened at the lateral margins, the edge separating it 
from the black portion, sinuate at the middle. Beneath and the 
pygidium black. Prosternum not produced in front, nearly truncate 
posteriorly. 
Length 2| mm. 
Hah. Northern India (Suffrian)-, Assam (Doherty). 
The type of this species was described by the author from a 
single specimen without a head, but as every other detail given 
agrees with the specimens I have before me, I have no doubt 
about the identity of the latter with Suffrian’s species. It is 
smaller than C. lefevrei and has strongly not finely punctured 
elytra ; the same difference in size and shape of elytral markings 
separates the species from C. dimi clia tipennis. 
Elytra fulvous or flavous with longitudinal blade bands 
or blade suture. 
401. Cryptocephalus nigrolineatus, Jac. Ann. Soc. Ent. Bely, xlvii, 
1903, p. 89. 
Elavous ; an intraocular stripe and the apical joints of antennae 
black ; thorax light fulvous with pale margins ; elytra with the 
extreme lateral margins behind the middle and a narrow lateral 
