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side of the anterior tibiae at the base of the spur, and the spur itself is thickened and 

 curved. The male is thus readily distinguished from the female ; but in F. seychellensis 

 there is no such distinction, the tibiee of the male having no dilatation and the spur being 

 similarly formed in both sexes. 



Monsieur H. Boileau, who kindly examined specimens of F. seychellensis, gave it as 

 his opinion that the species is new. It bears a certain resemblance to the Indo-Malayan 

 F. marginalis, of which I have examined the type and another specimen. The form of 

 the head is however quite different ; in F. marginalis the ocular canthi are scarcely 

 sinuate in front of the eyes, and the striae of the elytra are much more strongly 

 punctured ; also in the specimens which I have seen, the posterior angle of the canthus is 

 much less obtuse and the angles of the thorax are much less rounded off. F. marginalis 

 also has the above-mentioned secondary sexual difference in the tibiae. Monsieur Boileau 

 mentions that he has two specimens of a Figuhis from Benito, Portuguese Congo, which 

 are much more closely-allied to F. seychellensis, but at the same time quite distinct 

 from it. 



Loc. Seychelles. Silhouette : forest above Mare aux Cochons, over 1000 ft., IX. 

 1908, 1 $ and 1 $ from a decaying branch of " Bois Rouge" {Wormia ferruginea), also 

 a third (very small) specimen bred from a larva found in a decaying branch of the 

 same tree. Mahe : Cascade Estate, 800 — 1000 ft., I. 1909, 2 specimens (1 $ and 1 of 

 undetermined sex). 



Scarabseidae. 



Aphodiini. 



Aphodius lUiger, Kaf. Preuss., 1798, p. 15. 



3. Ajihodins lividus (Olivier). 



ScarabcBus lividus Olivier, Ent., i. 3. 1789, p. 86, PL 26, fig. 222. 



A2'>hodius lividus AUuaud, Liste Coleopt., p. 240; Kolbe, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, v. 

 1910, p. 22. 



9 specimens. 



Loc. Seychelles. Mahe : from low country on the main island, and from Anonyme 

 Island, 1908 — 9 ; cultivated country (Brauer). Previously recorded from Seychelles by 

 Fairmaire. Cosmopolitan. 



4. Aphodius nigritus, Fabricius. 



A2)hodius nigritus Fabricius, Syst. Eleuth., i. 1801, p. 73; Alluaud, Liste Coldopt., 

 p. 240; Kolbe, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, v. 1910, p. 22. 



15 specimens. 



Loc. Seychelles. Dennis Island, 1908 (Fryer): Silhouette, 1908: Felicite, fioiii ;i 

 coconut-plantation, XII. 1908: Malie, cultivated country on main island, 1908 — 9, and 

 Long Island, VII. 1908; cultivated country (Brauer): La Digue (Alluaud). Madagascar, 

 Mascarene Islands, Tropical East Africa. 



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