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punctured, pubescence thin, interstices shining; the marking at 
middle very indistinct, only the middle line black, the lateral 
branches obsolete. Scutellum elongately triangular, strongly 
narrowed, apex shortly rounded, base with fovea. Elytra with 
distinct epipleural lobes, punctured, the punctures strong, finer 
towards apex, interstices finely punctured and transversely 
wrinkled, with short white pubescence. Abdomen with a black 
oblique spot on first segment at each side ; femora with a faint 
black line on outer side ; prosternum with hind angles broad and 
blunt. 
“ Length 4 mm. 
“ Hah. Southern India.” (Sujfricin.) 
419. Cryptocephalus tricinctus, Redtenb. HugeVs Kaschm. iv, 1848, 
p. 562, pi. 28, fig. 6; Suff'r. Monoyr., Linn. Eat. ix, 1854, p. 15 ; 
id. t. c. xiv, 1860, p. 9. 
Elavous ; a transverse band at base of thorax, prolonged ante- 
riorly from middle towards anterior margin, two transverse bands 
on the elytra and their apices, black. 
Head closely punctured, deeply depressed at middle with longi- 
tudinal groove on vertex, vertex and 
groove black ; clypeus separated from 
face, broad and transverse, moderately 
emarginate in front ; mandibles black ; 
eyes subquadrately emarginate, sides of 
emargination straight with a piceous 
stripe within ; antennae with basal five 
or six joints flavous, rest black. Thorax 
strongly transverse, rather short, sides 
/ v— - w -y a feebly rounded, surface extremely mi- 
nutely punctured. Scutellum broad, 
black, apex truncate, transversely grooved. 
Elytra deeply punctured, the punctures 
not quite extended to the basal margin, 
interstices more or less convex ; the first band not extending to 
base, leaving the latter narrowly flavous, its lower edge strongly 
dentate, its inner end not touching suture near scutellum but con- 
nected with the second band along the sutural margin ; this band 
broader, placed behind the middle, anterior and posterior margins 
widened into a tooth at middle, apical black edging extended 
along the suture and narrowly joined on to the preceding band. 
Body beneath and legs flavous, sides of breast blackish. 
Length 6-7 mm. 
Hah. Kashmir; Mussoorie, 7500 feet. 
In the $ the joints of the antennae are much more elongate 
than in the $ . 
Fig. 86. — Cryptocephalus 
tricinctus. 
