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CHRYSOMELIJDJE. 
Abdominal fovea of $ more elongate and narrow than in 
C. sehestedti , the corresponding segment in 8 only slightly 
depressed. 
Length 2 mm. 
Hab. “ Tranquebar ” ; Madras. 
According to Suffrian the elytra in this species maybe described 
as having three longitudinal bands, of which the middle one is of 
slightly less width. 
407. Cryptocephalus vittipennis, Suffr. Monoyr., Linn. JEnt. ix, 1854, 
p. 31. 
Pale fulvous ; two obscure spots on thorax, suture, and a broad 
more or less divided longitudinal band on each elytron, black. 
Closely allied to C. ovulum , Suffr. ; has the same size and shape, 
but the sutural baud is narrower and the elytral longitudinal band 
bi- or trifurcate, the whole underside flavous. 
Thorax more fulvous ; the punctures of 
elytra much finer, nearly obsolete pos- 
teriorly ; interstices extremely finely trans- 
versely wrinkled. Legs pale flavous. 
Length 2| mm. 
Hab. Mussoorie ; Patna District ; Cal- 
cutta. 
Suffrian described this species as some- 
what doubtfully different from C. ovulum , of 
which it may be a variety, but the above 
differences seemed to him sufficient to 
separate it as a distinct species. In three 
specimens in my collection (two from 
Calcutta) the extreme lateral margins of the 
thorax are black (not mentioned by Suffrian), but otherwise they 
agree with the author’s description. In the third the tibiae and 
tarsi are black and the general size is larger ( 5 ). The discoidal 
black elytral stripe is probably subject to variation in regard to 
its partly divided shape, and in some specimens lately received 
from India the elytral stripe is trifurcate or divided into three rays 
as Suffrian describes it. 
408. Cryptocephalus poultoni, sp. n. 
Flavous ; breast black ; elytra with lateral margins and a broad 
sutural band that is deeply constricted at the middle black. 
Head impunctate; antennae with basal four joints flavous, rest 
in the type and only specimen wanting, third and fourth joints 
equal. Thorax twice as broad as long, sides nearly straight, 
slightly narrowed in front ; surface impunctate : extreme basal 
margin black. Scutellum triangular. Elytra parallel, strongly 
Fig. 84 .—Crypto- 
cephalus vittipennis. 
