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Cratocnema variicolor Granger, 1949 Cratocnema variicolor Granger, 1949: Mém. Inst. Sei. Madagascar ser. A Biol. Anim. 2: 85 E, type locality: Madagascar, Subebieville, female lectotype (and 2 female paralectotypes, present designations) in Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris; examined. — Shenefelt 1978: 1676 (literature up to 1949). Designation of the female lectotype of C. variicolor. — (first label) "Madag.r Suber.lle H. Perrier"; (second greyish label) "Museum Paris Madagascar L. Fairmaire 1899"; (third and fourth labels) Cratocnema variicolor sp. n. det. Szépligeti in litt.; (fifth label) "Type" (printed red); sixth label is my lectotype card. Designation of the paralectotypes of C. variicolor. — 2 females (first label): Madagascar, Bekily, January 1931; second label is my paralectotype card. CHECKLIST OF THE CRATOCNEMA SZÉPLIGETI SPECIES Cratocnema Szépligeti, 1914: Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin 7: 184, type species: Cratocnema bicolor Szépligeti, 1914 (designated by Brues 1926). Shenefelt 1978: 1675 (taxonomic etc. data of the species: p. 1675-1676). albopilosum (Szépligeti, 1913) (Bracon) — Tanzania bicolor Szépligeti, 1914 — Tanzania cephalotum Szépligeti, 1914 — Cameroons juxtacasum sp. n. — Malgasy leve Granger, 1949 — Malgasy luteum (Szépligeti, 1913) (Myosoma) — Mozambique maculipes Szépligeti, 1914 — Equatorial Guinea, Togo maculiventre Szépligeti, 1914 — Cameroons nigriventre Szépligeti, 1914 — Equatorial Guinea pallidipes Szépligeti, 1914 — Tanzania politum Szépligeti, 1914 — Zaire postfurcale (Brues, 1924) (Microbracon) — Republic of South Africa simile Szépligeti, 1914 — Cameroons, Guinea testaceum Szépligeti, 1914 — Cameroons, Equatorial Guinea tricolor Granger, 1949 — Malgasy variicolor Granger, 1949 — Malgasy Acknowledgement — My sincere gratitude should go to Mme Claire Villemant (Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris) who kindly allowed me the prolonged loan of the type series of the three Cratocnema species by Granger housed in her museum and under her curatorship. LITERATURE Brues, C. T. (1924): Some Souh African parasitic Hymenoptera of the families Evaniidae, Braconidae, Alysiidae and Plumariidae in the South African Museum with a catalogue of the known species. —Ann. S. Afr. Mus. 19: 1-150. Brues, C. T. (1926): Studies on Ethiopian Braconidae, with a catalogue of the African species. — Proc. Am. Acad. Arts Sei. 61: 205-436.