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C'HRYSOM E1ID2E. 
Elytra with strongly marked basal epipleurae, regularly and 
moderately strongly punctate-striate, finer from the apical third 
to apex, interstices feebly convex, margins narrowly black ; each 
elytron with five large black spots placed as in C. clodecaspilus but 
ail larger, the outer spots touch the margins, the inner spots near 
sutnre are often joined to the outer ones and form a large trans- 
verse patch. Pygidium black, margins flavous. Abdomen with 
first segment at middle and margin of last narrowly flavous. 
Prosternum produced in front.” ( Suffrian .) 
Length 4] mm. 
Bab. Kashmir. 
441. Cryptocephalus dodecaspilus, Suffr. Monogr Linn. Ent. ix, 
1S54, p. 61. 
Cryptocephalus triangularis, Hope , in Gray's Zool. Misc. 1831, p. 30. 
Flavous ; two spots on thorax, five on elytra (2.2. 1), and the 
underside black ; abdomen margined with flavous. 
Mead flat, forehead with shallow longitudinal groove, a few fine 
punctures near eyes only; clypeus not deflexed in front; vertex, 
a small spot at base of antennm and the emargination of the eyes 
Fig. 97 . — Cryptocephalus dodecaspilus. 
in 2 black; antennae longer than half the body, third and 
following four joints gradually^ elongate, the rest distinctly widened, 
appendage of terminal joint long, not much pointed, basal five joints 
flavous, rest black. Thorax strongly convex, much narrowed in 
front, posterior margin serrate ; surface impunctate, posterior edge 
narrowly black, two large transverse spots at middle, their posterior 
margins projecting outwards. Scutellum black. Elytra very 
slightly narrowed posteriorly, epipleural lobes indistinct ; surface 
strongly punctate-striate, interstices feebly raised, transversely 
wrinkled from below scutellum, margins, except at base, black ; 
four large black spots placed subquadrately at base, the inner spot 
near the scutellum placed a little below the latter, the other two 
