38 M. Antoine Grouvelle on 



ment et irregulierement ponctues ; stries suturales marquees com me 

 les autres ; bords lateraux tres fortement inflechis, finement 

 rebordes. Dessous de la tete, prosternum, mesosternum et meta- 

 sternum densement ponctues ; l er segment de 1' abdomen encore 

 plus fortement ponctue, les autres en majeure partie lisses, presen- 

 tant une ligne ou une bande transversale de points, pubescents 

 gurtout sur leur partie apicale. 



Les exemplaires males ont en general les antennes plus longues 

 et moins epaisses, les premiers articles des tarses anterieurs plus 

 dilates et les segments apicaux de l'abdomen plus mobiles. 



Cette espece, representee par environ 2G5 exemplaires, est tres 

 variable comme taille, longueur des antennes caracterisee par la longu- 

 eur du 9 me article, rapport de la longueur totale a la largeur maxima, 

 largeur du prothorax par rapport a la largeur des elytres, force 

 et densite de la ponctuation, developpement de la partie lisse du 

 prothorax, etc., etc. 



Loc. Seychelles. Silhouette, Mahe : " Silhouette ; from 

 the high mountain forests, the majority of specimens 

 having been found between bases of leaves of growing 

 endemic palms and Pandanus ; there is a series of thirty-five 

 specimens from leaf-bases of two trees of Pandanus hornet 

 above Mare aux Cochons ; a second series of seven specimens 

 from a Pandanus sechellarum in the same locality; a series 

 of thirteen specimens from a single Stevensonia palm also in 

 the same place ; several other batches from Stevensonia leaf- 

 bases in other places ; and a single immature example from 

 leaf-bases of the (in this respect unproductive) palm Ros- 

 ckeria. In Mahe the species was found in several parts 

 of the mountain forests, and a few specimens are recorded 

 as from a low elevation, near the coast at Cascade. The 

 Mahe series includes ten examples from leaf-bases of a 

 Verschqffdtia palm, and one small and two large sets from 

 Stevensonia palms." 



25. Cerylon liliputanum, n. sp. 



Oblongum, paulo magis ter longius quam latins, eonvexiusculum, 

 nitidum, pilis erectis, tenuissimis, oainutissimis, paroissime vesti- 

 tum, dilute castaneum. Antennae vix incrassatae; 2° articulo 

 paulo longiore quam latiore, cum .'5° subaequali, 3°-9° paulatim 

 parum incrassatis, clava oblonga, glandif ormi. Capul transversum, 

 eonvexiusculum, fronte vix perspicue punctulatum, ante antennarum 

 bases angulatim inflexum, antice truncatum. Prothorax antice 

 quam postice angustior, lateribus antice breviter valde rotundatus, 



