CHAMPION—COLEOPTERA ; CURCULIONID& 403 
clothed with minute, widely scattered, whitish or pale green scales, which are sometimes 
here and there condensed into a small patch on the depressions, especially towards 
the sides, the lower surface with scattered whitish hairs; the elytra with a transverse 
space on each side of the scutellum, the intermediate and posterior femora with a patch 
towards the apex in front, and an interrupted stripe along the sides of the body beneath 
(sometimes reduced to one or two spots), clothed with larger carneous or whitish scales ; 
the tarsi with narrow blue scales intermixed with the long white hairs above. Head very 
sparsely punctate, narrowly foveate between the eyes, the latter very large, oval, de- 
pressed, finely facetted ; rostrum rather narrow, flattened, feebly convex at the apex, 
sparsely punctate, obliquely carinate on each side anteriorly; joint 2 of the funiculus 
a little longer than 1. Prothorax transverse, constricted and much narrowed in front, 
strongly rounded at the sides in ¢, narrower, subconical, and with the sides subparallel at 
the base in 2; coarsely, confusedly punctate, the interspaces becoming granulate towards 
the sides, the disc obsoletely canaliculate posteriorly. Scutellum small, smooth, bare. 
Elytra long, very much wider than the prothorax, acuminate at the apex, granulate at the 
sides below the humeri; the outer margin serrulate towards the tip, the apices mucronate, 
the humeri obliquely truncate; coarsely striato-punctate, the interstices broad, feebly 
transversely plicate, and also sparsely punctate, the punctures each preceded by a minute 
granuliform prominence. Beneath closely transversely strigose and sparsely, finely, 
granulato-punctate, the flanks of the prothorax coarsely granulate. Anterior coxz 
thickly clothed with long white hairs in g. Anterior femora strongly clavate, enormously 
thickened in fully-developed ¢, and armed with a small tooth. Anterior tibize sparsely 
denticulate. 
Length (includ. rostr.) 9—15, breadth 3—53 mm. (#2). 
Loc. Seychelles: Silhouette, 1908. 
Var. subcinctus, n. (Pl. 22, fig. 7, g.) 
The elytra with an interrupted submarginal stripe (similar to that along the sides of 
the body beneath), and a small patch at the base of each dorsal interstice, densely clothed 
with rounded carneous or white scales, the disc sometimes with a few small patches 
of similar scales; the intermediate and posterior femora with a few intermixed narrow 
blue scales towards the apex, the patch of larger white scales wanting. 
Loc. Seychelles: Praslin; 1905; 1906 (Meade-Waldo); XI—XII. 1908: Round 
Island (Mus. Brit.). . 
This insect and its variety are forms of C. aurostriatus that require distinctive 
names. The one selected as typical of C. segregatus is abundant in Silhouette, in the 
same way that C. aurostriatus is in Mahé; it was beaten from bushes and trees in the 
mountain-forests, and some specimens also were obtained at lower levels: its variety 
subcinctus inhabits similar places in Praslin, where typical C. auwrostriatus also occurs. 
C. segregatus simply differs from C. aurostriatus in having black legs, and the vestiture 
of the upper surface greatly reduced, even in fresh examples, the minute scales being 
clustered, at most, into a few patches in the depressions of the elytral surface and 
extending over the interstices. 
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