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CHRYSOMELIDj®. 
Var. c. Humeral spot as in type ; posterior band very broad 
continued posteriorly along suture, sometimes also extending 
upwards. 
Var. cl. Eutire posterior half of elytra black. 
Length 5-8 mm. 
Hcib. Generally distributed throughout India and Ceylon. 
The elytral spots vary in number but typically there are three. 
426. Cryptocephalus bissexsignatus, Stiff r. Monogr., Linn. Ent. ix, 
1854, p. 56. 
9 . Dark red ; thorax and elytra each with four black spots 
( 2 . 2 ). 
Head finely and sparingly punctured, the interstices clothed 
with very short pubescence, middle of forehead and margins 
of clypeus darker ; antenuse pale fulvous, half the length of the 
body, third and fourth joints equal, each about two and a 
half times longer than the second, following joints (the seventh 
especially) widened. Thorax short, narrowed in front, sides 
rounded at middle, depressed at base in front of scutellum, 
scarcely perceptibly punctured ; sides pale yellowish, middle with 
Fig. 91. — Cryptocephalus bissexsignatus. 
two black spots and two others below the first spots. Scutellum 
fulvous margined with black. Elytra with elongate shoulders, 
epipleural lobes long ; surface strongly punctate-striate, finer near 
apex, interstices flat, finely wrinkled anteriorly, very sparingly 
punctured ; the extreme basal margin, a spot on the shoulders, an 
inner and slightly lower spot, and two behind the middle below 
the anterior spots, black, the outer spot of the latter two larger 
than the humeral spot. Pygidium black, broadly margined with 
flavous. Underside closely somewhat finely rugosely punctured, 
pubescent ; middle of breast and of metasternum yellow, rest 
black ; abdomen yellow, a spot on each side of first abdominal 
segment and a transverse band at middle of each of the following 
segments black. 
