the Seychelles Islands and Aldabra. 187 



excepted), moiitli-parts, basal joints of the antennae, anterior 

 coxaj, femora, and tibiie, and calcaria testaceons or rutb- 

 testaceous ; closely, uniformly fusco-cinereo-pnbescent. 

 Head very convex ; antennae slender, moderately lonjr, joints 

 1 and 2 rather stout, 2 a little shorter than 1, 3 small, short, 

 4 subtriangidar, 5-10 longer than broad, feebly subserrate ; 

 last joint of maxillary palpi stout, securiform. Prothorax 

 uiotlerately transverse, not wider than the elytra, rounded 

 at the sides anteriorly. Elytra subparallel in their basal 

 half. Pypdium long, acute, about as long as the })osterior 

 tarsi. Anterior femora beneath and anterior tibise at base 

 fnseo-ciliate, the latter sinuous within. Posterior tibiae witli 

 two very long oblique ridges, in addition to the shoit sub- 

 apical one. Posterior tarsi with joints 1 and 2 each with 

 two oblique ridges. 



? . Similar to (^ , but wii h the head and the anterior legs 

 in great part or entirely infnscate, the antennae a little 

 shorter, the anterior femora and tibiae not ciliate. 



Length (inch pygid.j 2^-4- mm. {S ^ •) 



Loc. Seychelles: Maiie, Round Island, Anonyme Island, 

 Silhouette, Felicite. 



A long series, almost all from low elevations. In Sil- 

 houette a large number of examples was swept from grass in 

 the low coconut-planted country near the coast at Pointe 

 Etienne, 17. ix. 1908 ; a few were also taken near Mare aux 

 Cochons. In ]Mahe specimens w'ere collected near Morne 

 lilanc, 500-1000 feet ; on the marshy coastal plains of 

 A use aux Pius and Ansa Roy ale ; and a few from over 

 1000 feet in the Mare aux Cochons district. Examples 

 were also found in two cultivated islets, Anonyme and 

 Round Island. Felicite : six specimens from a rather dry 

 type of forest near sea-level. 



A small, narrow, obscure form, with the head and anterior 

 legs partly rufo-testaceous in ^ , the vestiture uniform, the 

 prothorax rather long and not wider than the elytra, the 

 pygidium long and acute. 



EXPLANATION' OF PLATE VI. 



Fiy. L Cacoplesia viriditinda, C!,]inmYit.<r\, (^ . 



Fit/. 2. Cacop esia aunulijyes, CIiKuipiou, J • 



Fig. 3. Stictoihya loll f/ipeiiiiis, ChuB^-pion, <^ . 



Fi(j. 4. Mycteroinimus insiilaris, Cliaiupion, $ . 



Fi(j. o. Furyt/enius f raff ilicvrnis, Chmiiinon, 2- 



Fiy. f). Xj/lnp/iiivs turticoniis, Chiau[)ion, J. 



Fiy. 7. Ditto. Anteuna. 



Fiy. 8. Xylophilvs seychellarnm, Cliampion, J . 



Fiy. 9. Xylophilus vlavicorni-i, C'liaiiipion, ^ • 

 Fiy. 10. Mordelld ijcreyrinatofy Chaiupiou, J. 



