82 On Coleoptera from the Seychelles Islands^ <fcc. 



8. Anagaricuphilus pulchcllus, sp. ii. (PI. III. fig. 4.) 



Niger, pedibus et an tennis flavis (sed harum clava nigra) elytris(|Uo 

 utrincjuf lunula flava a baseos medio fero ad suturas medium 

 pruducta maculaquc rotundata anteaiuoali ornatis ; brcviter 

 ovatus, valdo convexua, nitidus, tololiaud dense aut longe grisseo- 

 setosus, t'orporo supra sat fortitor parum crebre punctato, proiioto 

 brevi, lateribus valde arcuatis, auguste marginal is, angulis omni- 

 bus obsoletis ; sculello late et obtuse triaugulari ; el}tris stria 

 juxtasuturali utrinque impressis. 



Long. 1*5 mm. 



This little species is remarkable for a colour-development 

 very unusual iu so small au insect, and is the only one 

 amongst the smaller Endomychidre known to me in Aviiicli a 

 pattern occui's, although the family is so notable for the 

 strikingly-contrasted colouiing of most of its larger forms. 

 It is shining black, with the legs and the footstalk of the 

 antenna bright ytdlow and each elytron ornamented with 

 two yellow patches, one extending backwards from the 

 mi(hlle of the basal margin and bent towards the suture, 

 being arrested by the juxta-sutural stria and not quite 

 reaching the middle of the length of the elytron, the second 

 a large nearly round spot a little before the apex. The 

 upper surface is highly convex, strongly punctured and 

 clothed with fine and ratlier scanty pubescence. 



Loc. Seychelles, Silhouette; Mare aux Cochons or 

 j)lateau immediately above, over 1000 ft,, ix. 11)08, two speci- 

 mens. Mahe: forest above Cascade, over 1000 ft., i. 1909, 

 one cxamj)le ; stunted forest on summit of Mount Sebert, 

 ca. 2000 ft., IG. i. 1909, one specimen. 



Genus Trochoideus, Westwood. 

 9. Trochoideus desjardinsiy tJuerin. 



Loc. Chagos Is., Amirantes Is., Farqahar Atoll, Seychelles. 

 Chagos : Egmont Atoll, 1905, Amirantes : Poivre and 

 Darros Islands, one of the specimens from Poivre being 

 labelled "in rotten cocos, 10. x. 1905.^' Parquhar Atoll: 

 1905. 



Seychelles: ]\Iahe ; high foiest of Morne Blanc, 1000 ft. 

 and over ; Cascade Estate, ca. 1000 ft. : Long Island, six- 

 teen s})ecimens were found together in July 1908, under a 

 heap of retting coconut husks just above the beach (cf. the 

 examples from Poivre I. iu the Amirantes, mentioned 

 above) . 



