CRATOPFS. 



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usually denticulate internally, the corbels ot" the hiud pair not 

 enclosed; the tarsal claws connate at the base. 



BcuKje. East Coast of xlfrica, and the islands of the Indian 

 Ocean as far East as the Andamans and Nicobars. 



Only one or two species of this typically insular genus have 

 been found in Africa. Six species have been recoi'ded by Sclion- 

 herr from India, but as no specimens with authentic data have 

 since been received from that country, and as three of the species 

 are known to occur in Mauritius or neif^hbouring islands, it seems 

 highly probable that the locality given lay ychcinherr for all these 

 species is erroneous. 



Keij to the Species. 



1 (4) Elytra with twelve strife ; the nieta- 



sternuiu between the coxte much 

 longer than the middle coxpe. 



2 (3) Scales beneath the eye evidently 



broader than those on the forehead. 



3 (2) Scales beneath the eye just as narrow 



as those on the forehead tiicobai'cnsis, sp. n., p 



4 (1) Elytra with ten striaj ; the meta- 



sternum only slightly longer than 



the middle coxae sinhalensis^ sp. u.. p 



adspersus, Wtrh., p. 45. 

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15, Cratopus adspersus, Wtrh. 



Cratopas adspersus, C. O. Waterliouse,* Rept. Zool. Coll. ' Alert,' 

 1884, p. 576 ; Champion, Trans. Linn. Soc, Zool. (2) xvi, 1914, 

 p. 400. 



Colour black or piceous, evenly clothed with recumbent hair- 

 like scales, through which the integument is readily visible ; the 

 scales are greyish with a slight green, blue or coppery reflexion. 



Fig. 15. — Cratopus adspersus, Wtrh. 



and scattered about the elytra are small groups of a few broader 

 scales ; the scutellum is densely clotlied with whitish scales. 



Head with rather coarse shallow punctation, the intervals 

 forming a transverse wrinkling, the forehead with a central fovea. 



