Seychelles and Rangoon, 21 



figures of tlie latter with Maltliews's illustrations of Cory- 

 lophus. 



Daubania is dedicated to Monsieur and Madame Edouard 

 Dauban, owners of the isUuKJ of Silhouette, Seychelles. 



10. Daubania seychellarum, sp. n. 

 (PI. I. fig. 18 ; PI. 111. figs. 19, 21-24.) 



Nitida, supra glabra, prothorace rufo, elytris piceo-nigris ad apicem 

 parum dilutioribus, ore antennis pedibiis rufo-testaceis, anten- 

 narum clavis infiiscatis ; prothorace subtiliter obsolete punctate, 

 elytris sat dense strigoso-punctatis. 



Long. Corp. 0-8 mm. 



With the characters of the genus. Colour: thorax red, 

 anterior margin paler, tianslucent ; scutellum and elytra 

 pitchy black, the latter diluter towards the apex ; underside 

 reddish brown; legs, mouth, and antennge reddish testaceous, 

 the antcnnoe with clubs infuscate. Sculpture &c. : disc of 

 thorax finely and obsoletely punctured; elytra closely punc- 

 tured, punctures separated by more than their own diameter, 

 produced into channels or striae, the general direction of 

 which is longitudinal, though near the suture they become 

 oblique ; though quite distinct, these striae are not very deep, 

 and under high lights sometimt^s only the actual punctures 

 are visible. Fygidium finely pubescent. Metasternum with 

 surface finely alutaceous at the sides, smooth in the middle, 

 and with j)unctuation and pubescence very scanty ; in one 

 specimen examined it is bare of pubescence in the middle, 

 the first abdominal segment is also nearly bare and has a 

 median longitudinal depression ; in anotiier example this 

 depression is absent, the segn)ent is more pubescent, and the 

 metasternum has some scanty pubescence in the middle in 

 front. These differences possibly may be in part sexual 

 (cf . lihypobius, p. 26) . The other ventral segments are finely 

 punctured and pubescent. 



Tills species is quite distinct in general appearance f.om all 

 other Seychelles Corylophidaa by its minute size, strigosely 

 punctured elytra, &c. ISlo species of any genus in Matthews's 

 collection superficially resembles it. Oligarthrum icater- 

 housei is quite different, being larger, unicolorous blackish, 

 with hind angles of thorax less produced and elytral punc- 

 tures not drawn out into striola?. 



Loc. Seychelles: Silhouette, Mahe, Praslin Islands, 1908-9. 



Fourteen examples : in Silhouette, collected at Mare aux 

 Cochons plateau or from the foiest near by, over 1000 feet ; 



