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thoracic punctuation being even, without any mingling of large and fine punctures on the 

 same part of the thorax. 



Loc. Seychelles : from localities differing as widely as the damp endemic mountain- 

 forests of Mahe and the much lower and drier forest on Felicite. Mahe : high forest near 

 Morne Blanc, XI. 1908 ; high forest between Trois Freres and Morne Seychellois 1500 — 

 2000 ft., XII. 1908 ; Cascade Estate 800 — 1000 ft. and forest above; from between leaf- 

 bases of a growing Stevensoma-T^aXm. on Cascade Estate at about 1000 ft., XII. 1908, 

 1 specimen : Praslin, Cotes d'Or Estate, XL 1908 : Felicite, 3 specimens from forest, XII. 

 1908. Key Islands, Malay Archipelago (the type, collected by Beccari). Hawaiian 

 Islands (Blackburn). 



Rhyssemus Mulsant, Coleopt. de France, LamelL, 1842, p. 314. 



10. Rhyssemus goudoti, Harold. 



Rhyssemus goudoti Harold, Coleopt. Hefte, iv. 1868, p. 85 ; AUuaud, Liste Coleopt., 

 p. 241 ; Kolbe, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, v. 1910, p. 22. 



Not obtained by the Percy Sladen Trust Expeditions. 



Loc. Seychelles: Mah(5, 1892 (Alluaud). Madagascar, N.E. Africa, Egypt. 



11. Rliyssemus ritsemcB, Clouet. 



Rhyssemus ritsemcB Clouet, Mem. Soc. ent. Belgique, viii. 1901, p. 81. 



Two specimens, for the identification of which I am indebted to Herr A. Schmidt. 



Loc. Seychelles. Mahd : from side of road just above beach at Port Glaud, 5. XI. 

 1908. The species is recorded from W. Africa (Freetown), and the var. indica Clouet 

 from the E. Indies. 



Orphnini. 

 Ph^ocrous Castelnau, Hist. Nat. Col., ii. 1840, p. 108. 



12. Phceocrous insidaris, Linell. 



Phmocrous insidaris Linell, Proc. U. S. Mus., xix. 1897, p. 699 ; AUuaud, Liste 

 Coleopt., p. 244; Kolbe, Abh. Senckenb. Ges., xxvi. 1902, p. 575. 



14 ,?, 15 $ : there is considerable variation in size in both sexes, the length varying 

 from 7 — 9^ mm. The thorax in this species is of the same form in both sexes, and is not 

 at all exj^lanate at the sides. The swollen terminal joints of the tarsi in the $ are 

 characteristic. 



Loc. Aldabra: 1908—9 (Fryer), and 1893 (Abbott). ? Seychelles: a single $ is 

 labelled "Mahe" (1905), but I doubt whether a wrong label has not been attached to it. 

 Madagascar : Kolbe (I.e.) had seen no specimens from Aldabra, but had seen some 

 collected in the N. of Madagascar by Voeltzkow which agreed with the description of 

 P. insularis. 



