ON THY. INSECTS COLLECTED BY DOCTOE ABBOTT OX 

 THE SEYCHELLES, ALDABRA, GLORIOSO, ANT) PEOVI- 

 DENCE ISLANDS, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NINE NEW 

 SPECIES OF COLEOPTEEA. 



By Martin L. Linell, 



Aid, Department of Insects. 



The insects collected by Doctor W. L. Abbott on the Seychelles in 

 1890 and on liis excnrsiuns to Aldabra, (ilorioso, and Providence islands 

 in 1893, while not nnmerons in species are of nnusual interest on account 

 of their geographical distribntion. The writer has paid particular atten- 

 tion to tlie study of the Coleoptera, but it seems advisable to mention 

 also the insects of the other orders, although all of these have not been 

 specifically identified. Doctor \V. J. Holland has already reported upon 

 the Lepidoptera.' 



INSECTS PROM SEYCHELLES ISLANDS. 

 LEPIDOrTEliA. 



Eight species of butterflies and nine species of moths are reported 

 upon by Doctor Holland as collected by 1 )octor Abbott on these islands. 

 Of the moths, one is described as new and the other eight have a wide 

 distribution. Of the buttertlies, three are peculiar to the islands (one 

 described by Doctor Holland), two occur also on Madagascar, two on 

 the African continent, and one species in the East Indies. 



Mr. Charles Alluaud collected, in 1893, 67 species of Lei)idoptera, on 

 which L'Abbe de Joannis reports^ that 80 per cent, is also found on 

 Madagascar, 60 to Qo per cent, in southeastern Africa, 45 per cent, in 

 India, and 20 to 25 .per cent, in the Mediterranean region. This paper 

 has unfortunately been overlooked by Doctor Holland, who has rede- 

 scribed Atella pMliberti of Joannis as A. seycheUarum. 



ORTHOPTERA. 



Doctor Abbott collected three imagoes and two nymphs of a splendid 

 leaf insect, PhyJlium gelonus. Gray. Two other species of the genus are 

 recorded from the Seychelles. The distribution of this family of insects 



iPioc. U. S. Nat. Mu8., XVIII, No. 1064, pp. 265-273. 

 2 Bull, Soc. Ent. France, 1893, p. 51. 



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