\ JAN 2 3 19 i/ V 

 THE ANNA^^. ^^ ^^^. 



MAGIZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY, 



[EIGHTH SERIES.] 



<« per litora s^^argite musoum. 



Naiades, et circiim vitreos considite foates : 

 PoUice virgineo teneros h'lc carpite flores: 

 Floribus et pichum, divse, replete canistrum. 

 At V09, o Nyraphee Craterides, ite sub undas ; 

 Ite, recurTato variata corallia trunco 

 A^eilite rauaoosis e rupibiis, et mihi conchas 

 Ferte, Desepelagi.etpiiigni conohyliasacco." 



N.Parthenii Giannettasi, Eol. I. 



No. 109. JANUARY 1917. 



I —.Oovy\o\A\\^^ [Goleoptera] from the Seychelles and Ean- 

 ' goon. By Hugh Scott, M.A., F.L.S., Curator in Eato- 

 mology in tlie University of Cambridge. 



[Plates I.-V.] • 



The main purpose of this paper is to give an account of tlie 

 Corylopliid beetles obtained by the Percy Sladen Trust l.xpe- 

 dition of 1905 and 1908-9 in the Seychelles and other is amis 

 of the Western Indian Ocean. But I have also included 

 certain forms taken at Rangoon in 1911. The actual sources 

 of these two sets of material may be considered separately, 



fis follows : — , n . 1 £ i. 



(A) Rangoon.— The specimens were collected trom a nest 

 of Munia striata, a bird belonging to the P^oceidae or weaver- 

 birds, on Oct. 9th, 1911, by Dr. H. H Marshall M. OH and 

 sent by him in alcohol to Professor G. H. F. Nutta 1 at the 

 Quick Laboratory, Cambridge. Professor Nuttall kindly 

 lianded over the Coleoptera to me. They consist ot three 

 species of Corylophid^ — namely, Arthrolips flavicoUis, 

 Matthews, Orthoperus munice, sp. n., and Orthoperus sp. 

 indet., as well as a single example of an undetermined 



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