180 Mr. G. C Champion on Cole^ptera from 



Ceylon, &c., but it cannot be identified from any of the 

 published descriptions. There is a long series of it in the 

 British Museum from many different localities ; and Mr. 

 Bryant has recently captured numerous examples in Borneo. 

 M. mixta, F., from New Guinea &c., is an allied form, and 

 an unnamed insect from the Andaman Is. in the Museum 

 collection is, perhaps, a variety of the present species. 

 M. composita, Walk., has very different elytral markings. 



19. Murdella diaparilis, sp. n. 



f^ . Moderately elongate, rather narrow ; black, the head 

 (except a large transverse patch on the vertex, which iis 

 sometimes wanting), mouth-parts, joints 1-3 of the antennae, 

 the sides of tiie prothorax l)roadly, the elytra each with an 

 oblique stripe extending froui the shoulder to' near tlie 

 suture and a curved or oblique fascia just Ijeyond extending 

 narrowly backwards along the suture to near the tip (the 

 latter sometimes nearly or quite obsolete, or represented by 

 yellowish pubescence), the anterior cox£e, femora, and tihiae, 

 the intermediate tibise, the extreme base of the posterior 

 tibiae, and the calcaria testaceous or rufo-testaceous ; varie- 

 gated with cinereous, ilavo-cinereous, and fuscous pubescence, 

 tlie flavo-cinereous hairs mostly placed on the fasciate 

 portions of the surface, the vestiture of the under surface 

 almost wholly cinereous. Antennae moderately long, slender, 

 joints 2 and 3 very short, equal in length, 4-11 much longer 

 than broad, subserrate. Terminal joint of maxillary palpi 

 rather stout, subtriangular. Prothorax transverse, a little 

 broader than the elytra, rounded at the sides. Elytra nar- 

 rowing from the base. Pygidium about as long as the 

 posterior tarsi. Anterior femora beneath, and anterior tibise 

 at the base within, fusco-ciliate. 



5. Similar to ^, but with the head, prothorax, and 

 intermediate femora infuscate, the antennae a little shorter, 

 the anterior femora and tibiae witliout longer hairs. 



Var. The oblique elytral fasciae connected along the 

 middle of the disc. 



Length (inch pygid.) ^-^l mm. (c? ? •) 



Loc. Seychelles : Silhouette, Mahe. 



Eleven examples ; the six from Silhonette were taken in 

 the high forest above Mare aux Cochons and in the low 

 coconut-planted country near the coast at Pointe Etienne, 

 ix. 1908 ; the five from Mahe were collected in the forest at 

 the summit of Morne Pilot, over 2000 feet, in the Mare aux 



