Coleoptera of the families Ostomidae, Monotomidae, etc. II 



pointille vers les cotes; bord anterieur subtronque; angles anteri- 

 eurs obtus; cotes rebordes; angles post6rieurs aigus, un peu sail- 

 lants en arriere; base subtronquee au milieu, obliquement reflechie 

 en arriere de chaque cote, rebordee ; marges laterales et basilaires 

 tivs brievement et fortement inflechies contre la bordure marginale. 

 Ecusson triangulaire, plus long que large. Ely tres aussi larges 

 a la base que le prothorax, en angle obtus aux epaules, tie continu- 

 anl pas sur les cotes la courbure des cotes du prothorax, arrondis 

 sur les cotes, un peu elargis, brievement arrondis ensemble au 

 sommet, environ une fois et un cinquieme plus longs que larges en- 

 semble dans leur plus grande largeur, marques de lignes substriees 

 de points assez forts, effaces sur les cotes et vers le sommet; inter- 

 valles des lignes assez larges; bords lateraux tres dtroitement 

 rebordes. Convexite des elytres plutot forte. Pattes robustes. 

 Mesosternum inllechi par rapport au plan du metasternum, celui-ci 

 fortement, irregulierement et eparsement ponctue sur les cotes. 

 Epipleures relativement tres larges.* 



87 exempl aires. 



Loc. Seychelles. Silhouette, Mahe: '"Silhouette, a 

 few specimens from the mountain forests near Mont Pot- 

 a-eau and Mare aux Cochons, including seven from a fallen 

 and rotten trunk of an endemic palm, one from between 

 leaf-bases of a growing Roscheria palm, and one from a 

 fallen and rotten trunk of ' Bois Rouge' (Wormia). In 

 Mahe the majority were found in the high forest of Morne 

 Blanc, and a few in several other localities." 



Axiocerylox, nov. gen. 



Antennae 9-articulatae ; clava uniarticulata. Antennae in sulci's 

 prosternalibus receptae; clava in prosterni depressione basilari 

 recepta. Processus prostemalis latus, apice haud inflexus nee 



* While making a preliminary sorting of the material previous 

 to sending it to Mons. Crouvelle, I removed the elytra of examples 

 of a number of forms in order to examine the condition of the meta- 

 thoracic wings. These were found to be normally developed in all 

 cases except three, namely Paralyreits scotti and Thyroderus sculpti- 

 collis (q.v.), and Cerylon curtulum. In the latter, six specimens were 

 examined, and in all of them the wings are minute vestiges of re- 

 markable form. They appear to he only about ] the length of the 

 elytra, though exact measurement is difficult, and in balsam prepai a 

 tions (two of which were made) they arc hardly visible at all owing 

 to their transparency. They are extremely narrow in proportion 

 to their length, the basal part being almost handle- or thread-like, 

 while the distal part is only xrry little wider.- -H. S. 



