78 ^If. G.J. Arrow on Culeoptera from 



Actually there are only three joints, the second very smkiII 

 unci the first [)roclueed into ;i single uarrow lobe, extending 

 consideriihly beyond the second. This is entirely unlike any 

 other tarsus known to me. The claws have a sharp-angled 

 basal appendix, as in many of the minute forms of Euciomy- 

 cliida', but this is not easily visible. 



5. Cyrtumychus cocci nelloides, Kolbe, op. cit. p. 3G. 

 (PL III. figs. 1, 1 a.) 



The single specimen from which this was described appears 

 to be a female. The long series brought together by 

 Dr. Scott sliows a remarkable sexual dilTeience. The males 

 have the apices of the elytra produced and thickened at the 

 angle — quite unlike the elongation found in females of the 

 genus Eumurplius. The only other external uifference is 

 that the fifth ventral segment is a little shorter in the same 

 sex, which I conclude on that account to be the male. 

 None of Dr. Scott's long series of my C. minor reaches the 

 length of li mm., given' by Kolbe as that of his type. In 

 other respects Kolbe's very brief description is not more 

 applicable to the present than to that species, hut the 

 measurement being given with such exactitude should be 

 sufficient to decide the point. This is evidently a very 

 common iusect in the locality in which the ty[)e was found, 

 and. it is highly improbable that that specimen belongs to 

 yet another species. 



Lac. Seychelles. Silhouette, Malie, Praslin. The 38 

 J (J and 50 ? ? were found exclusively in the endemic 

 forests at high elevations, aud in all months from August to 

 ^March. Sdhouette: near Mont Put-a-eau, ca. 1500 ft.; 

 Marc aux Cochons aud forest above, over 1000 ft. Mahe : 

 high forest of Aiorne Blanc and Pilot, ca. 2000 ft. ; high 

 forest between Trois Preres and Morne Seychellois, 1500- 

 .•iOOO ft.; Mare aux Cochons district, 1000-^000 ft.; forest 

 above Cascade Estate, including Mount Harrison, 1000- 

 2000 ft. Praslin: Cotes d'Or Estate, Coco-de-Mer 

 {Lodoirea) forest. 



6. Cyrtomijchus minor, sp. u. (PI. III. fig. 2.) 



Nigro-fuscus, nitidus, pedibus antennisque (clava exccpta) llavis: 

 rotundato-ovatus, convexus, supra ubique sat puree punctatus 

 et breviter griseo-hirtus, autennis brevibus, pedibus modice 

 gracilibus, capite fere lajvi ; pronoto convexo, niinutLssime ct par- 

 cissime punctato, lateribus valde rotundatis, aiitico sat late, post ice 

 arigiistissimc, marginatis, anlror.suni fortitcr, rctrorsum levitcr, 



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