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I think it is quite possible that it was a specimen of P. thoracica that Karsch 

 described, under the name of Cluetospania inornata, from Madagascar (1886, Berl. 

 Ent. Zeit. xxx. pp. 87 and 88), as the description and figures agree, save only that the 

 pygidium is not referred to in the text and the drawing may well be faulty. 



Localities. Seychelles. Silhouette : from the high forest, over 1500 ft., 2 $, 2 ?, 

 1 larva, VIII. 1908 ; from leaf-bases of felled and decayed Verschaffeltia palm, 4 $, 1 ?, 

 VIII. 1908 ; Mare aux Cochons, 3 $, 2 ?, 1 larva, IX. 1908 ; same locality, under bark of 

 stem of Dracama, 2 ?, 1 larva, IX. 1908. Mahe : high, damp forest between Trois Freres 

 and Morne Seychellois, about 1500—2000 ft., 1 $, 9—10. XII. 1908. 



Gen. SPARATTA, Serville. 

 1839. Orth. p. 51. 



11. Sparatta gardineri, sp. n. 



Colore rufo-castaneo, elytris pallidis ; pronotum quadratum ; abdomen $ subdilatatum ; 

 pygidium breve, depressum, lateribus excavatis, margine postico truncato, angulis ipsis 

 acutis ; forcipis bracchia $ basi remota, recta, ante apicem fortiter incurva, margine interno 

 dente acuto armata. 



Fig. 5. 



Fig. 6. 



6 ? 



S/Hinit/n gardineri. x 16. 



Sparalla gardineri. <£. x 10. 



Long, corporis 

 „ forcipis 



5 — 7 mm. 

 T25 — 1 "75 mm. 



5'5 — 8 mm. 



1 "5 — 2 mm. 



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