C 11 Y PTOCEPH ALUS . 
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punctate-striate ; interstices costate, strongly so at sides ; the 
lateral black band narrow, not extending to apex, inner margin 
somewhat ill-defined ; sutural band much broader, likewise abbrevi- 
ated before apex, deeply emarginate at middle. Anterior legs flavous. 
Length 3 mm. 
Hah. Nepal (Coll. Oxford Mus.). 
Although the single specimen before me is very defective, 
without posterior legs and abdomen, it is sufficiently distinguished 
by the elytral pattern and the costate interstices to render recog- 
nition of the species easy. From C. bombayensis the different 
colour of head and thorax at once distinguish it, while C. siynatella, 
Jac. has a different coloured thorax and an evenly wide sutural 
band. 
409. Cryptoceplialus uncinatus, Suffr. Monogr., Lina. Ent. xiv, 1860, 
p. 52. 
5 . Flavous ; vertex of head, two spots on thorax, scutellum, 
shoulders and a longitudinal band on elytra that is curved 
inwards, black. 
Very closely allied to C. malleatus , Suffr., and differs only in the 
following details : — The head has a distinct black band on the 
vertex and the thorax two spots ; the elytral bands are stronger, 
better defined, narrower, in shape linear, dilated posteriorly on the 
outer side ; the posterior curve is placed lower down and termi- 
nates at apical angle more acutely ; the apex remains very 
narrowly edged with flavous ; the basal transverse band is wanting 
and is replaced by a narrow elongate spot on the humeral callus. 
The size is double that of C. malleatus ; the elytral punctures are 
much stronger and the outer two interstices are distinctly 
convex, while in C. malleatus all interstices are flat and the 
punctures obsolete towards apex. Prosternum produced in front, 
round and hollow ; posterior margin bluntly produced. 
Length 4 mm. 
Hah. Ceylon. 
410. Cryptoceplialus notogrammus, Suffr. Monogr Linn . Ent. ix, 
1854, p. 143 ; id. t. c. xiv, 1860, p. 53. 
Black ; base of antennae, two small spots on head, anterior and 
lateral margins of thorax and legs flavous ; elytra flavous, with 
a broad sutural and a discoidal band. 
“ Head with fine central line, extremely finely and sparingly 
punctured, mouth-parts pale brown ; sides of face and a small 
obsolete spot at top of eyes yellow ; antennae of about half the 
length of body, third and fourth joints equal, flavous, fifth and 
following joints blackish. Thorax extremely finely and remotely 
punctured, a narrow anterior wider lateral margin and anterior 
corners flavous. Scutellum black. Elytra narrowed posteriorly ; 
