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" perlitoraspargrte museum. 



Naiades, et circum vitreos considite fontes ; 

 Polliee virgineo teneros hie earpite flores: 

 Floribns et pietiira. divae, replete canistrura. 

 At ros, o Nymphae Craterides. ite sub undas ; 

 lie, recurvato variata eorallia truneo 

 Vellite mustosis e rupihus. et mihi conchas 

 Ferte, De* pelat^i, et piiigni eonchylia sncco." 



N.Parthenii Giannettaai, Eol. 



No. 109. JANUARY 1917. 



I. — -Corylotilii'-lfe \ Coleoptera^ from the Seychelles and Ran- 

 goon. By Hugh Scott, M.A., F.L.S., Curator in Ento- 

 mology ill the University of Cambridge. 



[Plates I.-V.] 



The main purpose of this paper is to give an account of the 

 Coiylophid beetles obtained by the Percy Shiden Trust Expe- 

 dition of 1905 and 1908-9 in the Seychelles and other ishands 

 of the Western Indian Ocean. But I have also included 

 ceifain forms taken at Rangoon in 1911. The actual sources 

 of these two sets of material may be considered separately, 

 as follows : — 



(A) Rangoon. — The specimens were collected from a nest 

 of Alunia striata^ a bird belongin<>- to the Pl-oce id ae or weaver- 

 birds, on Oct. 9th, 1911, by Dr. H. H. Mar.shall, M.O.H., and 

 sent by hiin in alcohol to Professor G. H. F. Nuttall at the 

 Quick Laboratory, Cambridge. Professor Nuttall kindly 

 handed over the Coleoptera to me. They consist of thiee 

 species of Corylophidse — namely, Arfhrolips jlavicolh's, 

 Matthews, Orthoperus munioe, sp. n., and Orlhoperus sp. 

 iiidet., as well as a single example of an undetermined 



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