THE ANXALS 



MAGiZIXE OF NATURAL HISTOEY. 



[EIGHTH SERIES.] 



No. 110. FEBRUARY 1917. 



XII. — Coleoptera, Hetei'oraera i^exclading Teneljrloaidae) 

 from the Seychelles Islands and Aldabra *. By George 

 Chaules Champion, F.Z.S. 



[Plate VI.] 



The material reported upon in the present paper forms part 

 of the colleotioiis made by the Percy Sladen Trust Expedi- 

 tious of 1905 and 1908-9 in the Seychelles and other islands 

 of the Western Indian Ocean *. The twenty-six species of 

 Heteromerous Coleoptera enumerated belong to eight 

 families, tlie Monommidse, Cistelidse ( = Alleculidae), Melan- 

 dryidae, ffidemeridse, Anthicidse, Pedilidse, Xylophilidae, and 

 Mordellidfe. The Tenebrionidse (at present in the hands 

 of Herr Hans Gebien) are not included. The collections 

 examined illustrate the abundance of certain Q^demerids, 

 Xylophilids, and Mordellids (Mordellistena) in the islands 

 and the presence of two peculiar Melandryid genera in 

 tiie Seychelles. A first set of the material, including the 

 tt/pes of all new forms, will be placed in the British 

 Museum. 



* Many results of tills Expedition havo been published in a special 

 series of volumes of the Linnean Society's ' Transactions ' (ser. 2, Zool. 

 Tols. xii.-xvii.). 



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