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CllRYSOMELIDyE. 
I know of no other similarly sculptured or coloured Cry oto- 
cephalus from our region. The second elytral spot is placed just 
behind the middle, nearer to the margin than to the suture and 
below the humeral spot, but slightly more inwards. 
Male unknown. 
443. Cryptocephalus dohertyi, sp. n. 
Head and body beneath flavous ; terminal joints of antennae 
black ; above and the legs fulvous ; each elytron with a humeral 
and a subapical black spot. 
Head strongly and closely punctured, an obscure spot at vertex 
and above base of antennae fulvous ; antennae rather robust, basal 
five joints fulvous, rest black, second joint 
extremely small, third and fourth equal, 
intermediate joints slightly widened, pubes- 
cent. Thorax subglobular, lateral margins 
nearly straight, narrowed in front, posterior 
angles acute ; surface impunctate, extreme 
basal margin black. Scutellum fulvous, 
basal margin black, with a small fovea. 
Elytra very regularly and distinctly punctate- 
striate, the punctures only slightly finer at 
apex, interstices flat and impunctate ; the 
shoulders with a black spot, another spot 
near apex between third and seventh rows 
of punctures ; fifth and sixth rows of the 
punctures, not counting the subsutural row, 
shorter than the others and joined at the 
ends. Pygidium flavous, finely rugose. Prosternum subquadrate, 
posterior border deeply emarginate. Last abdominal segment of 
male with a small and round, that of female with a deep and 
elongate, fovea, that occupies the entire segment at middle. 
Length 5-6 mm. 
Bab. Burma: Ruby Mines (Coll. Brit. Mus.). 
The position of the posterior spot lower down than in the allied 
species is a good distinction. 
444. Cryptocephalus vahli, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Suppl. 1798, p. 108. 
Cryptocephalus parasiticus, Suffr. Monoyr., Linn. Ent. ix, 1854, 
p. 42 ; id. t. c. xiv, 1860, p. 20. 
Cryptocephalus mephistopheles, Euviv. Bull. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxv, 
1891, p. xxxvi. 
Cryptocephalus piceitarsis, Jac. Ann. Soc. Ent. Bely, xlvii, 1903, 
p. 90. 
Cryptocephalus vahli, var. parasiticus, Weise, Deuts. ent. Zcit. 1903, 
p. 30. 
Reddish-fulvous, elytral epipleurm below shoulders flavous ; 
Fig. 98. 
Cryptocephalus dohertyi. 
