262 PERCY SLADEN TRUST EXPEDITION 
Loc. Mahé: Cascade Estate, 800—1500 ft.; forest near Mt. Harrison, 1700 ft., 
UL, USO2) 
16. Scirtetinus piceus, spec. nov. 
g. Duabus speciebus przecedentibus simillimus, antennis pedibusque luteis, femori- 
bus plus minusve piceis, pronoto grossius punctato, elytris profundius striatis, pronoto 
parum latioribus atque dimidio longioribus. 
Long. (cap. excl.) 1°2 mm. 
Two #¢. 
The hind tibia bears a small tubercle in front of the apical setose excision. The 
proportions of the thorax and elytra are quite different from those observed in the 
two previous species, the elytra being distinctly though slightly broader than, and 
half as long again as, the pronotum. I have examined one of the specimens as to 
the underwings and found them to be more than twice as long as the whole specimen, 
The proximal area of the wing to the main knee (apex of cell) is narrow and only 
half the length of the much broader outer portion; the anal lobes are very strongly 
reduced and there are no distinct anal veins. 
Toc. Praslin: jungle on the Cédtes d'Or Estate, XI. 1908, from leaf-bases of 
Pandanus. Mahé: Cascade Estate, 800 ft.—Type from Praslin. 
A much larger 9, length 1:7 mm., may also belong here. It was found in the 
head of a Pandanus Horner in Silhouette, 22. IX. 1908. 
Cuoracus, Kirby (1818). 
Choragus, Kirby, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, xii. (1818) p. 447 (type: C. sheppardt). 
A cosmopolitan genus. A number of species have been placed into this genus 
which do not belong there. In true Choragus the prothorax and elytra bear at least 
some vestiges of pubescence; the eyes are lateral, the prothoracic carina antebasal and 
laterally curved forward, but does not reach beyond the centre of the sides. The 
head and pronotum are coriaceous and punctate. 
17. Choragus ornatus, spec. nov. (Plate 15, fig. 13). 
Nigro-brunneus, picescens, antennarum basi pedibusque luteo-rufis, utroque elytro 
in dorso maculis duabus magnis luteis una basali altera subapicali ornatis ; cylindricus, 
Sparsissume pubescens. 
Long. (cap. excl.) 2 mm. 
One specimen, probably a ¢. 
The second segment of the antenna is the longest of all, being clavate and 
more than twice as long as segment 3, 5 to 8 decrease in length, 8 being less than 
twice as long as it is broad; the club is broad, hairy, 9 triangular, as broad as it 1S 
long, 10 rounded proximally, subemarginate distally, twice as broad as long, 11 rounded, 
narrowing at the apex, slightly longer than broad. 
