CRYPTOCEPIlALUS. 
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Length 7-8 mm. 
Hob. Sikhim : Mimgphu ; Assam ; Burma : Bhamo. 
Suffrian described this species from a single female specimen. 
I have both sexes before me : the male is as usual smaller, and 
instead of four thoracic spots has only two, the elytra also have 
the inner spot of the second row wanting. In some specimens 
all the spots are present in both sexes. The form with only three 
spots on each elytron resembles C. sexsigncctus , Fabr., but in this 
species the thoracic spots are always absent and the underside 
and pygidium are not marked with black. Characteristic of the 
present species is the finely and closely punctured and pubescent 
head, with its deep longitudinal depression and more or less black 
spots. 
427. Cryptocephalus indicus, Suffr. Monogr., Linn. Ent: ix, 1854, 
p. 58. 
Fulvous ; head, thorax and elytra more or less spotted, generally 
with three or four small spots, the spots sometimes confluent. 
Closely allied to C. sexsigncitus, Fabr. and C. bissexsigncitus, 
Suffr. and as variable, but separated 
from the latter species by the differ- 
ence in position of the elytral spots, 
and from either by the more strongly 
rugose, almost costate elytral interstices 
at the sides ; the antennae are more 
elongate and more slender and the 
posterior angles of the prosternum more 
strongly pointed. The elytra are strongly 
and regularly punctured, feebly so behind 
the middle of the inner disc. Body be- 
neath either fulvous or more or less black ; 
legs always fulvous, the posterior femora 
often with a black spot. 
The following varieties are known : — 
Var. a. Entire upper surface uni- 
colorous fulvous. 
Var. b. Elytra with four black marks behind the middle ; thorax 
with two transverse ill-defined black spots at middle. 
Var. c. Elytra with four black spots (1.2.1), i. e. one on 
shoulders and one near apex in addition to the two spots as in 
var. b. 
Var. d. The two spots near suture joined iuto a transverse 
band ; the thoracic spots likewise obliquely connected. 
Var. e. Thorax and posterior half of elytra black. 
Length 5-8 mm. 
Hab. Southern India ; Bombay. 
Fig. 92. 
Cryptocephalus indicus. 
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