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near the scutellum is pale flavous, but the scutelhun itself is 
always black ; the female is larger but does not generally differ 
otherwise ; exceptionally the head is black with a flavous border 
near the eyes. I know no other similarly marked species. I 
received four specimens from M. Clavareau from Brussels. 
456. Cryptocephalus darjilingensis, sp. n. 
Pale fulvous ; antennae, the basal joints excepted, black ; elytra 
bright flavous, margins narrowly and three spots on each (2 . 1) 
black. 
Head with narrow central longitudinal groove at vertex, im- 
punctate, very shiuiug ; emargination of eyes shallow and broad ; 
clypeus triangular, impunctate ; antennae with third and fourth 
joints slender, equal, following joints gradually widened but not 
shorter, basal four flavous, rest black. Thorax short and trans- 
verse, of nearly equal width, only slightly narrowed anteriorly, 
entirely impunctate. Scutellum triangular, small, fulvous, black 
at base. Elytra of equal width, subcylindrical, finely punctate- 
striate, the punctures piceous ; interstices broad and flat, impunc- 
tate and shining, all margins narrowly black ; two elongate spots 
at base touching basal margin, one at shoulders, the other near 
scutellum, a larger subquadrate spot near apex between third and 
seventh row of punctures. Prosternum subquadrate, not produced 
at anterior margin, posterior angles blunt. 
Length 2 mm. 
Hab. Darjeeling {Coll. Belgian Mus.). 
One of the smallest species and sufficiently distinct by its style 
of coloration, the transverse, scarcely widened thorax and impunc- 
tate head. I have only seen a single male specimen kindly sent 
by M. Clavareau from Brussels. 
457. Cryptocephalus decurio, Suffr. Monogr., Linn. Ent. xiv, 1860, 
p. 27. 
Dark red ; two spots on thorax and four on elytra (2 . 2) black, 
posterior spots obliquely placed. 
Size, colour and pattern of elytra similar to those of C. secc- 
signatus ; rather more robust, shorter and more strongly convex, 
disc of thorax more highly raised ; the head with a few flue 
punctures only, without pubescence ; the elytral punctures at 
middle distinctly stronger ; the interstices raised, those below 
shoulders nearly costate, scarcely a trace of transverse wrinkles ; 
the inner of the posterior elytral spots is placed much more 
forward and before the middle of the elytra, but slightly less 
approximate to the suture than to the corresponding spot of first 
row ; last abdominal segment of female with a large round fovea. 
Male unknown. 
“ From C. bisse.vsignatus, the species differs in the markings of 
