2 y\v. H. Siott on Co\\]n\^\\'\i\iV from the 



('lU'iiiiil \\ liirli sooms closclv alliorl lo Silva7}>i.<t lonqiro'-nio, 

 GroMvelK', a tonn known from SinjUfnporo. In addition to 

 Colfopt(M-a, tlie tnbe containod some Lepidoptorous larvio, a 

 spider {Sn/foJen sy.), and somcGammasid mites, all from tin; 

 same biid's-ncst. I do not know of other recorded cases of 

 Corylopliida3 being found in birds'-nosts, but T liavo myself 

 taken a specimen of Orthopenis from a blacki)ird's or tinn'^li's 

 nest of tlieprecediiicr year at Ilenley-on-Tlmmes, 25.iii. 1910. 

 (li) SkyCIIKLLES Islands, — It was intended tliat all 

 results of the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition should appear 

 toeether in one publication, but circumstances have rendered 

 this impossible. The work in question consists of certain 

 special volumes of Trans. Linn. Soc. London, five of which 

 are already complete (ser. 2, Zoo!., vols, xii.-xvi.), wliile a 

 sixth is in proi^ress : these contain, z«/er a/w, a number of 

 reports on insects. In the present paper much the same 

 plan is followed as in my two previous articles on certain 

 groups of vSej'chelles Coleoptcra [op. cit. vol. xv. p. 215, 1912 ; 

 vol. xvi. p. 193, 1913). 



No Corvlophidae have been recorded from these islands 

 beiore. Those dealt with here aniount to twelve species, ten 

 of which are described as new (see below, under '■'■ deter tmna- 

 (ion of species'^), while one is undetermined and one is 

 referred to a previously described species. They belong to 

 eio^ht geiiera, one of which is described as new. The series 

 may be briefly analyzed thus: — Sacium, 4 spp. n. ; Arthro- 

 Ups, 1 sp. n., 1 sp. indet. ; Meiodenis, 1 sp. n. ; Sericoderus 

 {Anisomeristes), 1 sp. n. ; Dauhania, g. n,, 1 sp. n. ; Lew- 

 i.ti'im, 1 sp. n. ; Rhypobins^ 1 sp. n. ; Orlhopcrus, 1 sj). 

 (previously known). 



])isirihution. — One species, Rhi/jyohius oquUinuf!, was found 

 only on a coralline island of the Amirantes Group. The 

 other eleven were all taken by the writer in the mountainous 

 granitic islands of the Seychelles proper. Six of these were 

 found exclusively in the island of Silhouette, v^^hich was 

 visited only during the drier months of August and September; 

 one was only ol>tained in Long Island, a small cultivated 

 islet near Malic, in July, also one of the drier months; the 

 remaining four, including the new genus Dauhania, were 

 taken in two or more of the larger islands, and in butli 

 the drier and wetter seasons. 



Two species are represented by single specimens, two 

 {^Ski icodfiu.i and Leicisium^ by big series of over 50 and of 

 nearly 200 respectively, the remainder by series of J'rom 3 t;o 

 15 examples. They were all preserved dry. 



Seven kinds were obtained only at high elevations, in the 



