On Lulcujilcrujrom the ScycIulUs I.tLinJs, (Cr. -121 



XIi\'III. — ('o/t'OjUrra (Ccraiuhycnlic) from Ihe Srychfllts 

 Islaiiits, Aldahru^and Rodriyutz*. JJy Ciiu. Alrivillius 



(Stockholiii). 



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Tin: |)r(\seiit collection, which has been entrusted to nie hy 

 |)r. Hugh Scott, of the University Museum of Zooloj^y, 

 Cambridge, I'^ugland, comes ehielly from three diliiMvnt 

 localities — the JSeyehelies Islands, the island of Aldabra, and 

 Hodrigmz. 



Seychelles. — The oldest list of Cerambycids fnnn the Sey- 

 chelles Islaiuls known to me was published in 1893 by 

 A. Lameere (lUill. Soc. Knt. Fr. 181)3, p. lOo-IOfl) and 

 contains eight species, viz. Macrotoma wriyhti, Waferh. 

 (1880), Xysliocera ylolmsn, 01., Cercsiinii Jluvi/tes, F. hiinplex, 

 (Jyllenh.), ('eresium alhujiubens, Fairm. (181)1), (jUjitups 

 humerosa, Fairm. (1871), Tra(]ocejtliala alluandi, s|). n., 

 OU'uecamptus bilohus, F., and Apoinecyua sechc/lunim, s[). n., 

 all taken iu 1892 by Ch. AUuaud. 



Besides Coptops /lumeros/i, Fairm aire also described 

 in 1871 anotlier Cerambyeid from the Seychelles, IJi/>jtopsjs 

 ijti(tdricol/is, not met with by Alluaud. 



In his pa|)er on insects collected by Dr. Abbott in the 

 Seychelles (Proc. U.S. National Museum, xix. no. 1119, 

 1897) M. Linell enumerates only two Cerambj^cids, 

 Xijslrucera globusa and Copt ops cedificalor, F. ylndens, F.). 



In the :«ame year A. Thery described as new a species 

 from La Digue, Apumecyiia fauveli [=.Syl)ra yeniiiinia, King, 

 flZ>.), and recorded Strouialinm barhalum, F., as a member 

 of the fauna of the Seychelles. 



Ch. Alluaud enumerates in his great catalogue (' Liste 

 dcs Insectes Coleopteres de la Region Malgaehe,' 1900, in 



• [This paper forms pnrt of tlie series of report-i of tlie I'urcy Sladi-ii 

 Trust Ex]»i<lition to tlie Indian Ocean under Professor J. Stanley 

 Gardiner, F.U S.,in lS>0.j and l!>U8-y. A spi-cial fet of volumes ( I'rans. 

 Linn. Soc. liondon, ser. '2 (Zool.), xii.-xviii., from l!K)7 onwards) con- 

 tains the majority of tliese rHport,", but several of those dealing with 

 inwcts have had to be puhli-hed elsewhere. I am imlebted to the 

 Kditors of tilt! * Annals and Majrazine of Natural History ' for acceptinjf 

 the preS'-nt paper, as they have already done with several others. I nm 

 respon-^ibU' for the lists oriocalitie? and the biological uoti-s in Profe-sor 

 Aurivillius' paper. A firm set of t<p<>ciin»»ns, including the ti/pe.* of all 

 the new form.", will bn placed in the B.ilish Museum ; otliei series remain 

 with Professor Aurivillius aud iu the Cambridge Lniversity Mu>eum. 

 — HroH Scott.] 



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