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CHRYSOMELIDvE. 
broad and well-marked ; shoulders with a black spot, another 
transverse black spot between third and seventh rows of punctures. 
Underside rather paler, finely punctured. Prosternum strongly 
produced in front, triangularly so at middle, posterior angles 
acutely pointed. 
Lengtli 7 mm. 
Hah. Burma : Paungde {Coll. Jacohy). 
A large species, quite distinct from the preceding forms ; dark 
fulvous in colour ; the thorax very strongly convex, the posterior 
elytral spot placed well inwards ; sculpture of head and colour of 
the antennae quite different. A single female specimen only is 
known to me. 
448. Cryptocephalus herbsti, Suffr. Monogr., Linn. Ent. ix, 1854, 
p. 25. 
Eeddish ; elytra with three black spots (2.1), suture black 
posteriorly. 
Short and ovate. Head coarsely but not closely punctured ; 
antennae rather short, not extending beyond thorax or only 
slightly so in female ; antennae with third and fourth joints not 
much longer than the second, six terminal joints strongly widened, 
black, the others flavous. Thorax closely and moderately strongly 
punctured. Scutellum flavous, with darker margins. Elytra 
strongly punctate-striate; interstices flat, finely punctured, partly 
wrinkled, rather opaque; basal margin and the suture posteriorly 
narrowly black; spots small, sometimes nearly obsolete, placed as 
in the allied species. Pygidiutn pale fulvous ; abdomen sometimes 
brownish with paler margins ; legs fulvous, tarsi short and broad. 
Prosternum produced in front, convex at middle in male. 
Length 2| mm. 
Hah. Bengal; Assam. 
I have not seen any specimens like those mentioned by Suffrian ; 
those which I refer to his species are 4 mm. in length, and as they 
agree in most details I have not much doubt about the correct 
determination. 
449. Cryptocephalus pulvillatus, Suffr. Monogr ., Linn. Ent. ix, 1854, 
p. 24. 
The differences pointed out by Suffrian between this species 
and his C. herhsti are so slight that it is impossible to look upon 
them as more than varietal. Suffrian says that the present insect 
is intermediate between C. guttifer and C. herhsti ; in size it agrees 
with the last-named species and also in most of the other 
characters, except that the elytral spots are rather larger and 
the posterior spot placed rather more forward. It is impossible 
to distinguish them from these slight differences, as everything 
else is similar, and many intermediate specimens occur that could 
be referred to either species. 
The habitat of C. pulvillatus is given as the Himalayas. 
