176 Mr. G. C. Champion on Coleoptera from 



species are represented in the Seyclielles collection, all of 

 them apparently being fairly common insects in the Islands. 

 Rlr. Scott notes that " many of them were swept from grass 

 and other low-growing vegetation.^' So far as known, they 

 are wood-feeders in their earlier stages. Owing to their 

 extreme fragility, very few of the specimens oljtained are 

 in good condition. Upwards of a dozen species have been 

 described from Madagascar, three from Mauritius, one from 

 Bourbon, &c. 



14. Xyluphilus iorticornis, sp. n. 

 (PI. VI. figs. Q S >7 S antenna.) 



Bather short, moderately shining, very finely cinereo- 

 pu])escent, black, the tips of the tarsi, and sometimes that 

 of the eleventh antennal joint also, reddish. Head sliort, 

 together with the eyes broader than the prothorax, finely 

 punctate; eyes moderately large, occupying nearly the whole 

 of the sides of the iiead, feebly emarginate, distant ; antennae 

 (fig. 9) moderately long, closely setose, somewhat twisted, 

 stout, joints 2 and 3 short, 4-10 broad, perfoliate, very 

 strongly transverse, 6-8 wider than the rest, II stout, ovate, 

 about as long as 9 and 10 united. Prothorax transverse, 

 convex, rounded at the sides, closely, rather finely punctate, 

 bi-impressed on the disc posteriorly. Elytra much wider 

 than the prothorax, subparallel in their basal half, closely, 

 rather coarsely punctate, obliquely depressed on the disc 

 below the base. Legs short ; posterior femora moderately 

 thickened, obsoletely sulcate heneath ; basal joint of pos- 

 terior tarsi slightly curved. 



Var. a. Duller, the punctuation denser and coarser, 



Var. yS. Shilling, the punctuation more scattered than in 

 the type. 



Length 1-1 ^ mm. ( c? ? •) 



Loc. Seychelles : Silhouette [type] ; Mahe [var. a] ; 

 Praslin [var. /3]. 



Eighteen specimens — twelve of the form from Silhouette 

 selected as type, two of the var. a from Mahe, and four of 

 the var. /3 from Praslin, three of these much smaller than 

 the rest. The examples from Silhouette were found in the 

 forest near the Mare aux Cochons plateau, ix. 1908 ; the 

 two from Mahe are from higii elevations in the forests of 

 Morne Blanc and the Mare aux Cochons district; those 

 from Praslin were collected on Cotes d'Or Estate, xi. 1908. 

 The females appear to have the antennae a little less widened 

 and the eyes rather smaller than in the males. A species 



