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435. Cryptocephalus oppositus, sp. n. 
Fulvous ; terminal joints of; antennae darker ; thorax with two, 
elytra with three, black spots. 
Head remotely but distinctly punctured ; clypeus strongly 
pointed at angles ; antennae robust, basal five joints fulvous, rest 
fuscous, fifth and following joints somewhat triangularly widened. 
Thorax subglobular, narrowed anteriorly, extreme basal margin 
black, finely toothed, disc with two black spots rather widely 
separated on the middle ; scutellum raised, short, base with a 
small fovea. Elytra slightly narrowed posteriorly, the punctura- 
tion fine and regular; a humeral spot, another near scutellum 
larger, a third near apex between fifth and eighth rows of punc- 
tures, of round shape, black, all these spots surrounded by a paler 
coloured ring. Body beneath and legs rather paler than the 
ground-colour above. Prosternum with posterior angles strongly 
pointed. 
Vcir. Elytral basal spots nearly confluent, all of them larger ; a 
stripe at the sides of the breast and the middle of the abdominal 
segments black. 
Length 5 mm. 
Hah. N.W. Himalayas : Kulu {Coll. Brit. Mus.). 
A llied to C. herbsti and C. joulvillatus , but without any sutural 
or marginal black stripes and the thorax entirely impunctate. 
436. Cryptocephalus kandyensis, Weise, Deut. ent. Zeit. 1903, p. 31. 
Reddish-brown ; antennae (base excepted), two spots on thorax, 
three on elytra (2 . 1) black margined with flavous ; sides of 
thorax and breast, abdomen and pygidium flavous ; the pygidium 
with two black spots ; first abdominal segment at sides and last 
segment at middle black. 
Head punctured on the middle ; thorax finely and less densely 
punctate, interstices very minutely so ; antennae with the last 
seven joints widened, black. Thorax with the spots widely sepa- 
rated, placed transversely on the middle. Elytra moderately 
strongly punctate-striate, puncturation absent towards apex ; of 
the spots on the elytra, two are placed at the base, the inner one 
round, nearer to base than to suture or to outer spot, the outer 
one on the humeral callus, elongate subquadrate, scarcely twice as 
long as broad, third spot placed behind the middle, slightly larger 
than the others, transversely ovate. 
<3 . Tibiae, the intermediate especially, and the anterior tarsi 
strongly widened near apex ; last abdominal segment with a wide 
shallow fovea. 
Length 5 mm. 
JIah. Ceylon : Kandy. 
Allied to C. herbsti , Suffr., but different in coloration. 
