the Sei/cheUes Islands, (tc. 77 



Prof. K()ll)c and assij;juc«l l)y liim to tin; subfamily Splia-ro- 

 .soiuiiUL' of the Kiuloin\chulce. 11 is rriisoiiM for this an; not 

 a|)j»ureiit. Only a siiij^le s[)ccies of lAilureus is known, and 

 til is has iieen recorded only from the Hawaiian Ishinds. 



4. Eidorcus ininutus, Sharp. 

 PBeudaUxia $fch<llantv>, Kolbe, /. c. 



It seems likely that this may prove, like the related species 

 of the previons jjenus, to be a widely scattered ishmd form. 

 It «a-s found by Hrauer in an ants' nest under a stone, in 

 Praslin (see Kolbe), and some of Dr. Scott's examples were 

 also, as stateil below, fuuud with ants. 



Loc. Seychelles : Mahe, Long Island, Praslin. Mahe : 

 Cascade Estate, about lUOO ft., seveu examples. Long Island : 

 four specimens found in company with other Colc(jptera and 

 Lepisraatidie, iu a nest of the ant I'/ieido/e punctuluta, Mayr 

 (A. Forel dot.), in a decayed log, 18. vii. 1908. Praslin : 

 Cotes d'Or Estate, xi. 1008, three specimens. 



Endomychidae. 

 Two species, attributed to new genera, represent tliis family 

 in Kolbe's enumeration, one of them being the minute 

 Krotylitl, Eidoreus ininiUus, Sharp, just dealt with. The 

 Endomychidie of Dr. Scott's collection amount to five s[)ecies, 

 of which one only is known from elsewhere (Troc/ioidei/.'i (h's- 

 Jiirdinsi, GuL-r.). Three of the remainder, including ('i/rto- 

 mychus cuccinelloides, Kolbe, belong to two very remarkable 

 genera, probably peculiar to these islands *, and the other 

 is assigned to a genus hitherto known only from Lord Howe 

 Island, a spot so remote as to render it almost certain that 

 the genus has yet to be found in many parts of the world. 

 All the four species are highly interesting for the light shed 

 by them on the origins of the family and the development 

 of its characteristic tarsal structure. 



Genus Cyrtomychus, Kolbe, op. cit. p. 35. 



This genus was described by Kolbe from a single specimen. 

 A considerable number, belonging to two species, were taken 

 by Dr. Scott. There seems no doubt that these belong to 

 i'ljrtouiijcfiHs, although the structure of the tarsi is very 

 different from that described. The feet are said by Kolbe 

 to be cryptotetramerous and the third joint bilobed. 



• A supposition borne out by the fact that ail the material of these two 

 genera was found only iu the eudcuiic forests at high elevations. 



