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THE ANXALS 



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MAGiZ[XE OF NAT[JRiL HISTORY. 



[EIGHTH SERIES.] 

 No. 110. FEBRUARY 1917. 



Xir. — Coleoptera, Heteromera {excluding Tenebrionidse) 

 from the Seychelles Islands and Aldabra *. By George 

 Charles CnAMPiONf, F.Z.S. 



[Plate VI.] 



The material reported upon in the present paper forms part 

 of the colleotions made by the Percy Sladen Trust Expedi- 

 tions of 1905 aud 1908-9 in the Seychelles and other islands 

 of the Western Indian Ocean *. The twenty-six species of 

 Heteromerous Coleoptera enumerated belong to eight 

 families, the Monommidae, Cistelidse ( = Alleculid8e), Melan- 

 dryidae, ffidemeridae, Anthicidse, Pedilidse^ Xylophilidse, and 

 Mordellidfe. The Tenebrionidse (at present in the hands 

 of Herr Hans Gebien) are not included. The collections 

 examined illustrate the abundance of certain (Edemerids, 

 Xylopliilids, and Mordellids (Mo7'dellistena) in the islands 

 and the preseuce of two peculiar Melandryid genera in 

 the Seychelles. A first set of the material, including the 

 types of all new forms, will be placed in the British 

 Museum. 



* Many results of this Expedition have been published In a special 

 series of volumes of the Linnean Society's * Transactions ' (ser. 2, Zool. 

 vols, xii.-xvii.). 



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