24: Mr. H, Scott on Corylopliidse/rom the 



and antennae reddisli to.staceous, clubs of the antennge not 

 bliickened. Thorax and scutellum under a powerful hand- 

 lens appearing ini|)unetate, but under a compound n)icroscope 

 the tlioiax is seen to bear numerous very fine subobsolete 

 punctures. Eli/tra closely and strongly punctured, punctures 

 separated by once to twice their own diameter ; sutural stria 

 not distinouisbable. Whujs dissected out and found to be 

 ample. Aletasterrnim rather closely and strongly punctured 

 towards the sides, but with the elevated central part almost 

 impunctate. Abdomen ventially clothed with fairly close, 

 fine, short hidrs. 



Li general appearance closely resembling L. cetjlonicum , 

 Matth., which is, however, distinctly larger. The example 

 of L. ceylonicuiH before me appears a very little less convex, 

 has scarcely any reddish colour along the suture of the 

 elytra, the elytra even more strongly punctured, and the 

 metasternum almost impunctate at the sides as well as slightly 

 less elevated in the middle. But differences of a more 

 definite character lie in the form of antennae and mouth-parts, 

 as stated above. 



L. seychelleanum is quite distinct in size and general 

 appearance from the other previously described species of the 

 genus — I. e., L.japonicum, Matth., and also from Catoptyx 

 hoivringi, Matth. A second species of Catoptyx has been 

 described recently by ir^ahlberg (1913) — C. hvantinus, from 

 the Lebanon ; but tliis is said to have the elytra " obsolete 

 punctata" and the third joint of the anteima as long as broad, 

 and must be quite different from L. seychelleanum. 



Loc. Seychelles : Silhouette, Mah^, Long, Praslin, and 

 Felicity Islands, 1908-9. Found tnuch more abundantly 

 than any other species, over 190 s[)eciinens being taken ; the 

 distribution seems fairly gener;d, from sea-level and the 

 cultivated country up into the endemic forests. In Silhouette 

 n)any examples were collected from near Mont Pot-a-eau, 

 ca. 1500 feet, and from Mare aux Cochons ; a number were 

 swept from long grass; one is recorded as beaten from dead 

 palm-leaves ; two were found in fallen dry branches con- 

 taining nests of the ant Phtidole punctidata, Mayr (A. Forel 

 det.), on the coast near Pointe Etienne, 17. ix. 1908. In 

 Mah^, generally distributed from the cultivated country up 

 to elevations of over 1000 feet. In Long Island, a cultivated 

 islet near Mahe, a specimen was taken from the beach just 

 above high-water mark. 



