the Seychdles Inlands and Ahhdira. ISd 



several examples were obtained by Mr. Scott iu the same 

 island iu x. and xi. 1908 near Morne Hlanc, not in the highest 

 forests, but between 500 and 1000 feet. A few were collected 

 at Long and Round Islands, small cultivated islets off Port 

 Victoria, Mahe, vii. 1908. Several were also found in 

 Felicite and Marie Anne Islands, xii. 1908, in a rather dry 

 tvpe of forest near sea-level. 



K<)ll)e's description was made from a single example, and, 

 as the antennal structnre is not mentioned by him, it is not 

 quite certain whellier the name should be applied to this or 

 the following species. The first ridge on the posterior tibiae 

 and first tarsal joint is at most feebly developed and often 

 wanting. Amongst tlie series examined there are at least 

 two of each sex with the genital organs extruded, so that 

 there can be no mistake as to their identification. 



21. MordelUstena degre&sa, sp. n. 



Extremely like M. inalmia, but differing from it in having 

 the antennae le.-s elongate in both sexes (in S about as long 

 as in ? .of M. mahenu), comparatively short and subserrate 

 in ? , joints 3 and 4 small and equal in length in the two 

 sexes, 5 twice as long as 4, 5-11 moderately elongate in S • 

 Posterior tibise and tarsi as in M. maliena. 



Length (inch pygid.) B^-H mm. {S ^ ■) 



Loc. Seychelles : Mahe, Silhouette. 



INine specimens, eight of which are from Mahe. All are 

 from the mountain-forests. These appear at first sight to 

 be females of M. niahena ; but as there is no corresponding 

 variation in the development of the antennae in the long 

 series of the allied forms from the Seychelles, the examples 

 with a short fourth joint must be separated from the rest. 

 M. deyressa, therefore, is based upon examples with seven, 

 and M. mahena with eight, elongated antennal joints. 



22. MordelUstena parlilis, sp. n. 



^. Rather short, narrow, convex ; black, the head, an- 

 tenna, mouth-parts, prothorax, anterior and intermediate 

 legs, and the posterior tibise and tarsi in part, testaceous ; 

 the elytra variegated with cinereous and black pubescence, 

 the latter condensed into a very lai'ge transverse patch at 

 the base (not quite reaching the suture) and a common, 

 broad, postmedian fascia (leaving a sharply defined sub- 

 median and apical fascia cinereous), the vestiture of the 

 pygidium and under surface cinereous, that of the head and 



