the Seychelles Inlands and Al.'ahra. 1G3 



before the middle, with rows of somewhat ch)scly phaced, 

 rather coarse, shallow punctures placed in fine shallow striae, 

 the punctures becomino- coarser and less approximate and 

 the strite obsolete on the gibbous portion of the disc, the 

 interstices minutely punctate throughout, moderately convex 

 towards the sides and apex, and almost flat on the disc. 

 Eeneath closely, finely punctate, the punctures on the 

 anterior and lateral portions of the metasteruum coarse and 

 scattered ; ])rosternal process moderately broad, the marginal 

 carinas parallel ; fifth ventral segment with a very deep, 

 bisinuate, transverse sulcus extending across the middle 

 from the outer margin, interrupted in the centre by a 

 dentiform backward prolongation of the anterior portion of 

 the segment. 



Length 0I-6I, breadth 3l-3f mm. 



Jjoc. Aldabra : Takamaka, x.-xi. 1908 (Fryer). 



Eleven specimens, almost certainly including the two 

 sexes. Near M. irroratum, King, from Madagascar, but 

 smaller ; the vestiture finer and more scattei'ed, not con- 

 densed into two well-defined densely punctate spots on the 

 disc of the protliorax (well shown in King's figure) ; the 

 prothorax more finely punctate ; the elytra less dilated at 

 the sides below the humeri, the humeri more aeute, the 

 seriate punctures smaller and shallower, the dentiform back- 

 ward prolongation of the basal portion of the fifth ventral 

 segment narrower and extending to very near the apex. 



Fam. Cistelidse ( = Allecuiidae). 



Cacoplesia. 



C'rtco/j^es/a, Fairmaire, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xlii. p. 237 (1898). 



The two species provisionally referred to this genus have 

 the penultimate joint of the tarsi lobed and the tibial spurs 

 small, as defined by Fairmaire, 



2. Cacoplesia viriditincta, sp. n. (PI. VI. fig. 1, c?.) 



Oblong-oval, moderately elongate, subopaque, subglabrous, 

 fusco-testaceous, more or less suffused with green or golden- 

 green, the head and prothorax being almost entirely of this 

 colour, the elytra more dilute, the antennae aiul legs testa- 

 ceous or obscure testaceous. Head closely, finely punctate, 

 tlie epistoma separated from the front by a shallow 

 groove ; eyes large, prominent, slightly smaller in ? , 

 separated bv less than the width of one of them as seen 



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