CRYPTOCEPHALUS. 
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flanks of the thorax beneath. Prosternum subquadrate, fulvous, 
posterior margin feebly bisinuate. 
Length 3-4 mm. 
Hah. Burma: Bhamo, Shwegu. 
Allied to G. tricinctus, Bedt. and C. trifasciatus, Fabr., but with 
two black bands only instead of three, the first of these placed at, 
not below the base. 
42o. Cryptocephalus sexsignatus, Fabr. Syst. Fleuth. ii, 1801, p. 41 ; 
Oliv. Ent. vi, 1808. p. 785, pi. 4, fig. 46; & kiffr. Monogr., Linn. 
Ent. ix, 1854, p. 53 ; id. t. c. xiv, 1860, p. 26. 
Dark red above, brownish beneath ; each elytron with narrow 
black basal margin aud three black spots (1 . 2). 
Fig. 89. 
Cryptocephalus sexsignatus. 
Fig. 90. 
Cryptocephalus sexsignatus, var. c. 
Large and robust. Head distinctly but not closely punctured, 
front with short deep depression ; labrum flavous, parts of mouth 
black. Antennte of male two-thirds the length of the body, third 
and fourth joints each three times as long as the second, fifth to 
seventh strongly, terminal joints slightly, widened ; basal joints 
flavous or red, shining, rest finely yellow pubescent. Thorax 
short, sides narrowly margined, narrowed in front, surface with 
shallow depressions at sides in front of scutellum, basal margin 
narrowly black, disc sometimes with two black spots. Scutellum 
red with darker margins, sparingly punctured. Elytra with 
strongly developed lateral epipleurse, the punctures coarse at 
base, finer towards apex, interstices rather convex at sides, finely 
transversely wrinkled ; a black spot on shoulders, two immediately 
behind the middle, the inner larger one on third interstice, the 
other rather lower on the eighth interstice. Pygidium finely 
punctured, carinate ; prosternum strongly produced in front, 
posterior angles broadly triangular. 
Var. a. Elytral humeral spot widened into a transverse band, 
posterior spots greatly enlarged, more or less separated. 
Var. h. Like var. «, but the posterior spots joined in a similar 
band. 
VOL. i. 
a 
