164 Mr. G. C. Champion on Coleoptera from 



from above; last joint o£ maxillary palpi ratlier narrow, 

 elongate-triangular; antennae slender, long in cJ, shorter 

 in $ , joints 3—11 subeqiial in length, 3-10 feebly subserrate. 

 Prothorax transverse, rather small, arcuately narrowing from 

 a little behind the middle to the apex, the base broadly sub- 

 truncate, the hind angles obtuse ; the punctuation fine and 

 sparser than on the head, the interspaces alutaceous. Elytra 

 much wider than the prothorax, moderately elongate, sub- 

 parallel in their basal half in (J, a little widened posteriorly 

 in ? ; deeply crenato-striate, the punctures closely placed, 

 the interstices convex thi'oughout and very sparsely, fiuelj'^, 

 irregular!}^ punctate. JEdeagus of (^ long, tapering, abruptly 

 bent at some distance before the slender tip. 

 Length 7^-8^, breadth 3-3^ mm. ( c? ? .) 

 Loc. Aldabra : Esprit Island, xii, 1908 {Fryer). 

 Eive specimens, the two males having the sedeagus pro- 

 truding. Allied forms occur in Madagascar, and it is just 

 possible that the present species may be referable to one of 

 them. It has the upper surface obviously less shining than 

 in C. micans, King, coerulans and caeruleovirens^ Eairm., &c., 

 to jvidge from the descriptions of those insects. 



3. Cacoplesia anmdipes, sp. n. (PI. VI. fig. 2, c? .) 



Oblong-ovate, convex, the head and prothorax opaque, 

 the rest of the surface shining; head, prothorax, and ooxie, 

 and the basal joint of the antennae in immature examples, 

 obscure ferruginous, the rest of the antennae black, tlie 

 elytra brown, the legs testaceous, with the knees, and some- 

 times the apices of the tibiae also, black ; very finely pubes- 

 cent, the elytra almost glabrous. Head small, densely, 

 rugosely punctate, the epistoma confused with the front ; 

 eyes small, strongly transverse, ratlier prominent, somewbat 

 distant from the base of the head ; last joint of maxillary 

 palpi small, subtriangular ; antennae extending to beyond 

 the middle of the elytca, joint 2 small, 3 and 5 equal, 4 

 slightly longer, 5—10 gradually becoming t^horter and stouter, 

 11 ovate, shorter than 10. Prothorax transversely convex, 

 short, nearly twice as wide as the head, rounded at the sides, 

 a little more narrowed in front than behind, subtruncate 

 at the base, the hind angles obtuse ; densely, ruguloscly 

 punctate. Elytra convex, moderately long, about one-half: 

 wider than the prothorax, narrowing from the middle, the 

 humeri rounded; crenato-striate, the punctures closely placed, 

 the interstices convex, faintly punctulate. Beneath closely, 



