1S2 



Mr. G. C. Champion on Coleoptera from 



Anteniinl joints 6-11 not much longer than 



broad direwpta, sp. n. 



Body black, griseo-pubescent ; bead partly 



testaceous iu c? aryutula, sp. n. 



20. Mordellistena mohena. 



(Text-fig. 3, posterior leg.) 



Mordellistena muhenu, Kolbe, Milteil. Zool. Miis. Berlin, v. p. 28 (1910). 



Moderately elongate, cuneiform, rather narrow ; casta- 

 neous or fusco-castaneous, thickly clothed Mith greyish- 

 broAvn puhescence. Antcnnre filiform, very long in ^, 

 shorter in ? , joints 1 and 2 shorter than 3, 3 in cT about 

 one-third, and in ? one-lialf, the length of 4, 4-11 equal iu 

 length. Apical joint of maxillary palpi stout, securiform. 



Fig. 3. 



Mordellistena mahcna, Kolbe. Posterior leg. 



Pygidium long, acuminate, as long as hind tarsus. Poste- 

 lior til)i0e with 4 or 5, first joint of posterior tarsi with 3 or 

 4, and the second and third joints each with 2, oblique 

 ridges. 



Length (incl. pygid.) 3^-4^ mm. ( c? ? .; 



Loc. Seychelles : Mahe, Long Island, Round Island 

 relicite, ]\larie Anne. 



Tills species was originally taken in ^Nlahe by Braner ; 



