12 M. Antoine Grouvelle on 



Xuthia, Pascoe, 1863, Journ. of Ent., II, p. 28, pi. 8, f. 1. 



8. Xuthia sicana, Pascoe. 



Xuthia sicana, Pascoe, 1863, 1. c. 

 Xuthia maura, Pascoe, 1863, 1. c. 

 Xuthia rvfina, Pascoe, 1863, 1. c. 



Espece repandue dans toutes les Indes orientales ; tres 

 variable. 



66 exemplaires. 



Loc. Seychelles. Silhouette, Mahe, Felicite : " Sil- 

 houette ; sixty specimens from under bark of felled trunks 

 of a dicotyledonous tree, near the coast at Pointe Etienne, 

 17. ix. 1908 ; also four specimens from elevations of 1000 feet 

 or more. Mahe, one specimen from Mare anx Cochons 

 district, 1000-2000 feet, i. 1909. Felicite, one specimen 

 from forest, xii. 1908." 



Cicones, Curtis, 1826, Brit, Ent,, IV, f. 149. 



9. Cicones scotti, n. sp. (PI. II, fig. 9.) 



Ovatus, modice convexus, nitidulus, squamulis plus minusve 

 albido-ochraceis, ex parte infuscatis vestitus, bruimeus; elytris 

 ochraceo-testaceo-variegatis, antennis clava excepta piceo-testaceis, 

 pedibus dilutioribus. Antennae breves ; clava globosa, quam articulis 

 praecedentibus multo latiore. Caput modice transversum, ant ice 

 sinuatum, fronte depressum, antice, inter oculos, utrinque oblique 

 substriolatum ; fronte tenuiter punctulata, subdense squamosa ; 

 oculis elongatis, parum prominulis. Prothorax antice quam postice 

 angustior, lateribus arcuatus, circiter in maxima latitudine sesqui- 

 latior quam longior; margine antico medio rotundato-producto, 

 utrinque sat valde sinuato ; angulis anticis subacutis ; lateribus antice 

 subsinuatis, vix perspicue crenulatis, tenuissime ciliatis : angulis 

 posticis obtusis ; basi utrinque late subsinuata, tenuiter striato- 

 marginata, praecipue medio ciliata ; disco plus minusve dense tenuis- 

 simeque punctulato, dense squamoso, aliquibus squamulis obscuris 

 intermixtis. Elytra humeris subangulosa, lateribus arcuata, ampli- 

 ata, apice conjunctim subacuminata, circiter sesquilongiora quam 

 in maxima latitudine latiora, striato-puiutata ; intervallis latis, 

 unilifieato-punctulatis, praecipue ad basin fcransversim vix striolatis; 

 Bquamulis validioribus in intervallis, minoribus in striis instructis; 

 squamulis infuscatis in paitibus obscurioribus praecipue congregatis. 

 Long. 2-2-7 mill. 



