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XV. Coleoptera : Melasidae et Elateridae des Sechelles et 

 des ties voisines.^ Par E. Fleutiaux. 



[Read June 7th, 1922.] 



(Plate XXXIII.) 



La faime entomologiqiie des Sechelles etait jiisqu'a 

 present bien peu coniiue. Aucun Melasidae n'y avait et6 

 signale encore. On trouvera plus loin, 1' enumeration de 

 7 especes se repartissant en 6 genres differents (dont un 

 nouveau) ; 3 sent deja citees de la faune indo-malaise et les 

 4 autres sont nouvelles. 



Quant aux Elateridae, la liste n'en etait pas longue, 

 leur nombre s'elevait seulement a 8 especes, appartenant a 

 6 genres,f auxquelles on en peut ajouter une 9^, d'Aldabra. J 



* [ This work forms part of the results of the Percy Sladen Trust 

 Expedition to the Western Indian Ocean under the leadership of 

 Prof. J. Stanley Gardiner, F.R.S., in 1905 and 1908-9. I am much 

 indebted to the Entomological Society for accepting it for publica- 

 tion, since it has not proved jDossible to include all the reports on 

 insects in the special seiies of volumes devoted to the Expedition 

 (Trans. Linn. Soc. London, ser. 2, Zool., xii-xviii, from 1907 onwards), 

 and a number of them have had to be published elsewhere. The 

 majoritj?^ of the specimens on which the present report is based were 

 collected by myself in the Seychelles proper, and very largely in the 

 endemic forests at high elevations. I am responsible for the portions 

 of the locality -lists given in English and in inverted commas, these 

 data being compiled from my notes and journal. The names of 

 other collectors who formed part of, or assisted, the Expedition in 

 the Seychelles or other islands in the same region are given in 

 brackets in the locality-lists. A first set of the insects, including 

 the TYPES of all new forms, will be placed in the British Museum, 

 and a, second series will be kept in the Cambridge University Miiseum, 

 while Monsieur Fleutiaux has retained certain examples for his 

 collection. Exigencies of space have necessitated the arrangement 

 of the bibliographical references in a soniev/hat shorter form than 

 that used by the author in his mPvUnscript, but nothing material has 

 been omitted. — Hugh Scott.] 



t Kolbe, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, v, 1910, p. 25 : Agrypnus 

 aequalis Candeze; A. fuscipes Fabricius; Adelocera modesta 

 Boisduval; Alans mahenus 'Fa.xrm&ive; Psephus aUvaudi Fleutiaux; 

 MelanoxantliKs melanocephaliis Fabricius ; M. cribricoUis Fleutiaux 

 {= puerulus Cand. var.); Cardiophorus svbviaculatus Kolbo ( -=- 

 lidos us Cand.) 



i Kolbe, Abhandl. Senckenb. Kat. Gcs. xxvi, 1S02, p. 575 : 

 Heteroderes senex Candeze (= complanatus Kolbe). 

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