C RYPIOCEPH ALUS. 
22 !) 
405. Cryptoceplialus lucifer, Suffir. Munogr., Linn. Ent. ix, 1854, 
p. 141. 
5 . Black ; basal joints of antennae, legs, anterior and lateral 
margins of thorax and two spots at base of latter, flavous ; elytra 
tiavoas margined with black and with discoidal black band. 
Head finely punctured and transversely wrinkled, mouth-parts 
brownish ; space below eyes flavous ; antennae with third joint 
slightly longer than second, fourth still 
longer and equal to following joints, basal 
joint flavous, black above, following three 
piceous, rest black. Thorax scarcely per- 
ceptibly punctured, punctures very remote, 
anterior margin narrowly, lateral very 
broadly flavous ; posterior margin narrowly 
black, finely serrate, two oblique posteriorly 
connected yellow spots at base. Scutellum 
black. Elytra strongly punctured, the 
punctures distinct to apex; epipleural lobes 
short ; base near scutellum deeply trans- 
versely depressed, interstices feebly raised ; 
outer margins black, extending round 
Cryptocephalus lucifer. epipleural lobes and base, sutural margins 
more broadly black ; the discoidal stripe 
gradually narrowed posteriorly, not extended to apex and occupying 
at its narrowest portion the third to the seventh row of punctures. 
Pygidium yellowish with darker margin. Last abdominal segment 
paler at hind margin, with an ovate posteriorly truncate cavity. 
Length 5 mm. 
Hctb. Southern India : Pondicherry. 
Fig. 82. 
406. Cryptocsphalus ovulum, Suffr. Monogr., Linn. Ent. ix, 1854, p. 30; 
id. t. c. xiv, 1860, p. 12. 
Cri/ptoccph alus o vulu m. 
quite to apex. 
Elavous; breast black; elytra with margins, 
suture and an elongate posteriorly abbreviated 
stripe on disc black. 
Closely resembles C. sehesteclti , Eabr., but 
smaller, more rounded, puneturation of elytra 
finer, the impressions at base of thorax deep 
and the scutellum, which is triangular in 
sehesteclti, is in this species elongate and 
narrow. Antennae only flavous on the under- 
side, brownish above ; the breast less black 
than in C. sehesteclti ; abdomen scarcely 
darker. The elytra have the outer margins 
deep black and the suture is broadly of 
similar coloration ; the bauds do not extend 
Prosternum but little produced in front. 
