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C'HRYSOMELIOJE. 
the middle between third and ninth row. Pygidium and last abdo- 
minal segment flavous. Prosternum produced at middle of anterior 
margin, posterior angles short, fulvous ; legs fulvous. 
Length 4 mm. 
Hah. Kashmir; Punjab; Khasi Hills {Coll. Jacoby). 
As this species, of which five specimens are before me of both 
sexes, differs from any of those described by Suffrian, I must con- 
sider it distinct. The differences consist in the black sutural elytral 
band extending quite to the base, in the large elytral spots, and 
the fiavous pygidium and similarly coloured last abdominal seg- 
ment ; in the female the head has a small black central spot at the 
vertex ; the thoracic spots are sometimes posteriorly pointed, the 
inner elytral spot near suture is always placed below base. 
C. obconicus, Suffr. is 3 mm. in length, bas a partly black head and 
pygidium, abdomen black except at sides, and different elytral 
puncturation, sutural margins very narrowly black, &c. 
455. Crypto cephalus zonalis, sp. n. 
Head and body beneath more or less black ; thorax fulvous with 
two black spots ; elytra fulvous, a transverse band at base, and 
another at apex, and the extreme sutural margins, black ; legs 
fulvous. 
Head rugosely punctured, dark fulvous with two large black 
spots and a central black band between eyes at vertex, surroundings 
of eyes pale ; the latter closely approximate 
at apex, broadly but not deeply angulate- 
emarginate ; clypeus subtriangular ; an- 
tennae black, extending beyond middle of 
elytra, basal four joints fulvous, third and 
fourth equal, terminal joints graduall} r 
widened. Thorax strongly convex, rather 
short, impunctate, extreme margins flavous, 
posterior margin black, a black spot at the 
middle on each side. Scutellum black. 
Elytra narrowed posteriorly, strongly 
punctate-striate, the striae closely placed 
but the punctures w T ell separated, distinct 
and scarcely finer at apex, interstices finely 
wrinkled here and there, the last two 
convex . Prosternum flavous, longer than 
broad, anterior margin produced [in 
front. 
Hob. Ceylon: Kandy (Colls. Belgian Mus. and Jacoby). 
From other transversely banded species the present form is 
principally distinguished by the black apical band, if large placed 
at extreme apex, or if smaller not quite extending to it and never 
to the lateral margins, the transverse band at base touches the basal 
but does not reach the lateral nor the sutural margins ; the suture 
Fig. 103. 
Cryptoceph alus zon all s. 
Length 3|-4| mm. 
