the Seychelles Inlands and AMahrn. 179 



the prothorax with six spots — two, semilunate^ on the ante- 

 rior portion and four, confluent, near the base ; the elytra 

 with four spots — one sub-basal, median, one submarginal, 

 posthumeral, one subsutural, a little before the middle, and 

 one anteapical. It is compared with the Asiatic M. com- 

 posita, Walk., and the African M. elegans, Maki. 



The unique exami)Ie known measures 14 mm. in Icni^th. 



18. MordeUa peregrinator, sp. n. 



• (PI. VI. fi<r. 10, ? .) 



Robust, elongate, cuneiform, deep black, the anterior coxae, 

 the anterior femora in part, and the palpi testaceous, the an- 

 tennae often fuscous, with the base testaceous ; clothed with 

 black and wdiitisli or cinereous pubescence, which is con- 

 densed into the following sharply defined markings : — The 

 head with a large [latch on the middle oi: the vertex, and the 

 protlioi'ax with an interrupted median vitta and a large tri- 

 angular mark on each side of it, infuscate or black, for the rest 

 whitisii, cinereous, or flavo-cinereous ; the elytra with three 

 strongly angulate n;irrrow fasciae — one sub-basal, irregularly 

 brancliiug forwards (enclosing an oblique oval spot on the 

 disc, an oblique humeral streak, a common postscutellar 

 patch, and sometimes a small spot on each side of it), and 

 one a little before and another just beyond the middle, these 

 two connected along the suture — and a broader, simply 

 arcuate, transverse fascia just before the apex, whitish or 

 cinereous, for the rest black ; the ventral segments at the 

 base or laterally, the side-pieces of the metasternutn, and 

 the pygidiura in gieat part above, also Avhite. Antennae 

 slender, moderately long in ^ , shorter in ? , joint 2 shorter 

 and stouter than 3, 3-11 nearly equal in length, 5-10 

 serrate ; last joint of maxillary palpi greatly develo[)ed, very 

 broadly securiform, nearly as wide as the inter-antennal 

 portion of the head in both sexes. Prothorax broader than 

 the head and elytra, deeply bisinuate at the base, rounded 

 at the sii;es. Elytra long, narrowing from the base. Py- 

 gidium very long, compressed, acute at tip. Ventral segment 

 5 holiowcd down the middle posteriorly in ^. Anterior 

 femora and tibiae simply pubescent in both sexes. 



Length (excl. head) 6j-8|, to tip of pygidium S^-IH ; 

 breadth (prothorax) 2i-3^ mm, ( (^ ? .) 



Loc. Seychelles: Silhouette; Round I. Java; Borneo; 

 Singapore; Philippines; Malacca; Ceylon, &c. 



One ? specimen from Silhouette (Mare aux C<Jchons, 

 ix. 1908). This is apparently a common species in Borneo, 



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