443 Mr. G. Clark on the Cocoa'tiut of tfie Seychelles Islands. 



Regularly ovate, robust ; antennae rather longer than half the 

 body, slender, filiform, scarcely thickened at their apex. Thorax 

 more than twice as broad as long ; sides narrowly margined, very 

 slightly rounded, and converging from base to apex, anterior 

 angles thickened ; upper surface very minutely punctured ; the 

 usual longitudinal impression on either side at the base strongly 

 marked, transverse groove distinct. Elytra rather broader at 

 their base than the thorax, ovate, slightly narrowed towards 

 their apex, very convex, impressed within the humeral callus 

 with a curved semicircular depression. Hinder thighs strongly 

 thickened, unarmed beneath. 



Arsipoda rugulosa. 



A. anguste ovata, modice convexa, obscure fulva, nitida ; antennis 

 extrorsum iiigris ; pcctore, abdoinine femoribusque posticis (basi 

 prsetermissa) obscure piceis, vertice elytrisque cupreo-aeneis ; 

 thorace fusco-ocneo. 



Long. 2^ lin. 



Hab. Melbourne. 



Facial ridge very broad, scarcely raised ; facial plates trans- 

 verse, separated from the front by an indistinct transverse groove, 

 vertex minutely granulose : antennae scarcely equal to half the 

 length of the body, slightly thickened towards their apex ; four 

 basal joints, together with the bases of the fifth and sixth, ful- 

 vous — the first four stained above with piceous. Thorax more 

 than twice as broad as long ; sides slightly rounded, converging 

 from base to apex ; anterior angles obliquely truncate, slightly 

 reflexed ; upper surface irregularly excavated on the sides, closely 

 rugulose, impressed a short distance in front of the basal margin 

 with a faint transverse groove, which does not extend to the 

 lateral border. Elytra rather broader than the thorax, irregularly 

 punctured, their whole surface covered with irregular transverse 

 rugae. 

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L. — On the Cocoa-nut of the Seychelles Islands, or Coco-de-Mer. 



By Mr. George Clark, of the Seychelles.* 

 The Coco-de-Mer is undoubtedly the most remarkable plant in 

 this colony and its dependencies, one of which is the only spot 

 in the world in which it is indigenous. The fruit was known 

 long before the plant which produces it, or the locality in which 

 it is found ; and various fables were invented as to its origin, and 

 marvellous virtues were attributed to its qualities. The few 

 known specimens of it which existed were valued at an enormous 

 price till, in 1742, the discovery of the Seychelles archipelago 

 made known the habitat and nature of this singular production. 

 * Communicated by Dr- Bond. 



