182 Mr. G. C. Champion on Cohoptera from 



Anteiinal joints 5-11 not much longer tlian 



brocad dirempta, sp. n. 



Body black, griseo-pubescent ; head partly 



'testaceous iu c? argutula, sp. n. 



20. Mordellistena mahena. 

 (Text-fig. 3, posterior leg.) 



Mordellistena mahena, Kolbe, Mitteil. Zool. Mus. Berlin, v. p. 28 (1910). 



Moderately elongate, cuneiform, rather narrow ; casta- 

 neous or fusco-castaneous, thickly clothed with greyish- 

 brown pubescence. Antennae filiform, very long in Sy 

 shorter in ? , joints 1 and 2 shorter than 3, 3 in c? about 

 one-third, and in $ one-half, the length of 4, 4-11 equal in 

 length. Apical joint of maxillary palpi stout^ securiform. 



Fia-. 3. 



Mordellistena mahena, Kolbe. Posterior leg. 



Pygidium long, acuminate, as long as hind tarsus. Poste- 

 rior tibiffi with 4 or 5, first joint of posterior tarsi with 3 or 

 4, and the second and third joints each with 2, oblique 

 ridges. 



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



Lac. Seychelles : Mahe, Long Island, Round Island 

 Felieite, Marie Anne. 



This species was originally taken in Mahe by Brauer : 



