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8. Cratopus aurostriatus. 
Cratopus aurostriatus Fairm., Bull. Soc. Ent. France, 1892, p. cli; Kolbe, Mitteil. 
Zool. Mus. Berlin, v. p. 41 (1910). 
Cratopus parcesquamosus Fairm., Bull. Soc. Ent. France, 18938, p. ecexxiv ; Kolbe, 
loc. cit. 
Cratopus abbott: Linell, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., xix. p. 704 (1907). 
Femora and tibize rufous; the depressions of the upper surface each with a small 
dense cluster of rounded, golden-green, blue, or golden scales, the elytra sometimes with 
a dense irregular or interrupted submarginal stripe of carneous or whitish scales similar 
to that along the sides of the body beneath; the elytra coarsely and regularly striate- 
punctate, the interstices feebly transversely plicate. 
Loc. Seychelles: Mahé; 1888 (Lister) ; (Brauer) ; 1905; 1906 (Thomasset) ; 
1908—9: Cerf Island, 1906 (Meade-Waldo): Praslin, 1905: Félicité, XII. 1908: Round 
Island (Mus. Brit.). Glorioso Island (Abbott). Madagascar. 
Var. Femora and tibize piceous or rufo-piceous, the femora sometimes sparsely 
viridi-squamose between the scattered hairs; the prothorax closely granulate, and the 
elytra strongly transversely plicate, the irregular depressions of the surface clothed with 
golden-green or blue scales, sometimes with golden or carneous scales intermixed. 
Loc. Seychelles: Mahé, 1908—9; Marie Anne Island, 1908; Round Island (Mus. 
Brit.). 
This species’ was found by Mr Scott to be abundant in a number of localities in the 
mountain forests of Mahé, where it was beaten from various dicotyledonous trees. C. awro- 
striatus occurred up to the highest parts of the mountains, and has also been taken nearer 
sea-level in two islets (Cerf Island and Long Island) lying off the coast of Mahé. It has 
also been met with in several more distant islands of the Seychelles, z.e. Praslin, Félicité, 
and Marie Anne, but it is noteworthy that no specimen is recorded from Silhouette. It 
is considered by some people to be an introduced insect, possibly responsible in part for 
the destruction of endemic “Capucin” (Northea) trees. Fairmaire gives simply “Sey- 
chelles” for it. His C. parcesquamosus is based on an abraded example of the same 
species. The tarsi in fresh specimens are often clothed above between the long white hairs 
with narrow blue scales, but no reliance can be placed on this character. The male has 
the prothorax more rounded at the sides, and relatively broader, than the female; the 
anterior legs more elongated, and the femora still more robust; and the anterior coxe 
thickly clothed with long white hairs. The two specimens from Félicité Island have the 
scales of the upper surface golden-cupreous and the whitish submarginal stripe well 
developed. The variety with strongly plicate elytra and irregularly distributed confluent 
patches of scales is represented by five examples only. We are indebted to M. Lesne of 
the Paris Museum for the loan of a co-type of each of Fairmaire’s species. 
9. Cratopus segregatus, n. sp. 
Elongate, subfusiform, shining, black, the antennee piceous or ferruginous ; above 
