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Show 256 MR. M. JACOBY ON THE [Feb. 2, coloured stripes of the elytra, I cannot look upon his species as identical, unless he has forgotten to mention this fact. CRYPTOCEPHALUS LATEFASCIATUS, n. sp. Below flavous ; head and thorax rufous, the latter impunctate, with two large black spots ; elytra very strongly punctate-striate, rufous, a transverse black band at the base and another before the apex. Length 3 lines. Of broad and robust shape ; the head strongly punctured, wdth a broad longitudinal depression between the eyes, the latter not very deeply notched ; anterior margin of the clypeus semicircularly concave, labrum fulvous; mandibles black; antennas scarcely extending to the middle of the elytra, fuscous, the lower five joints flavous, the third, fourth, and fifth joint very elongate, nearly equal; thorax twice as broad as long, with a comparative broad lateral reflexed margin, the posterior angles prominent, furnished with some strong teeth, the surface entirely impunctate, rufous, the sides with a broad black band, which does not extend to the anterior margin; scutellum very broad, its apex truncate, the base with a fovea, fulvous, margined with black ;• elytra wdth a deep depression within the shoulders, very strongly punctate-striate, distinct to the apex, but not quite extending to the base, the rows somewhat irregular here and there, sometimes with double punctures, the interstices smooth and impunctate, rufous, shining, the base with a broad transverse black band, extending as far as the first row of punctures, leaving the sutural portion round the scutellum, as well as the lateral margin between the last row of punctures, of. the ground-colour; this band occupies nearly a third portion of tbe length of the elytra, a second narrower band is placed below the middle, but extends to the suture, the lower edge of the basal band and the upper margin of the second band are rather strongly sinuate; pygidium, underside, and legs pale fulvous, clothed with short yellow pubescence. Niger-Benue Exped. (Staudinger) (my collection). Evidently closely allied to 67. sulclfrons, Suffr., but that species is described with a finely punctured thorax, with the elytral interstices likewise punctured, and with a black elytral band placed at the apex. C. tempestlvus, Suffr., also resembles the present species in colour and in the position of the elytral bands, but has a black head, a distinctly punctured thorax, very regular elytral rows of pnnctures with punctured interstices, and is much smaller. CRYPTOCEPHALUS WESTWOODI, n. sp. (Plate XVII. fig. 9.) Pale flavous; the head partly and two longitudinal thoracic bands piceous ; elytra deeply punctate-striate, the punctures piceous, each with a black spot on the shoulder, two others placed transversely below the middle, and a reddish-fulvous angular band before the middle. Length 2 | lines. |