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CHRYSOMELIDiE. 
mesosternum, and middle area of first abdominal segment pale 
yellowish-red. 
Length 5 mm. 
ffcib. Bombay ; Central India : Baipur. 
According to Suffrian this is the largest of the three or four 
species all similarly marked, but as he described his species from 
a single female the general size is probably no larger than that of 
the same sex of the allied forms. I have not seen specimens of his 
C. guttifer, or of any other species belonging to this section, which 
agree precisely with the descriptions, and without a large amount 
of material no certain conclusion can be arrived at as to the specific 
differences of these closety allied forms, which are all subject to 
great variation. Not a single specimen before me which may 
otherwise be referred to C. guttifer has the thorax sparingly 
punctured as Suffrian gives it ; on the contrary the puncturation 
is fine and very close. In spite of the almost too loug and de- 
tailed description, the author unfortunately makes no mention of 
the position of the inner elytral basal spot, whether it touches the 
base or is placed lower. 
452. Crypto cephalus senarius, Suffr. Monogr., Linn. Eat. xiv, 1860, 
p. 22. 
Bed above ; three spots on elytra, sutural margins and under- 
side black. 
Head feebly convex, impressed in front of vertex, closely 
and strongly rugose-punctate ; antennae half the length of body, 
third and fourth joints equal, fifth slightly longer, terminal 
joints widened, slightly darker than the others. Thorax large, 
strongly narrowed in front, posterior margin serrate, surface 
closely and strongly but not deeply punctured, base narrowly 
black. Scutellum triangular, margined with piceous. Elytra 
narrowed posteriorly, humeral callus broad and flat ; epipleural 
lobes well-marked ; puncturation strong, especially so at base, very 
feeble near apex ; interstices broad, punctured anteriorly, finely 
wrinkled posteriorly ; basal and apical margins narrowly black, 
sutural margins widened posteriorly into a longitudinal band ; 
elytral spots placed as in C. herbsti and C. guttifer. Pygidium 
finely punctured, black ; coxse and legs red. Anterior margin of 
prosternum feebly produced. Last abdominal segment of male 
simple, of female with deep fovea. 
Var. a. Elytra with a transverse band at base instead of spots, 
third spot present. 
Var. b. Posterior portion of elytra with another band. 
Var. c. Both bands more or less connected by longitudinal stripes. 
Var. cl. Elytra black, their epipleural lobes and the suture 
anteriorly flavous. 
Length 3-5 mm. 
Hab. India : Igatpuri ; Surat ; Kasara, 
