Coleoptera from the Sej/cheUes Islands, d'c. 443 



at apex. Elytra cvlinclrical, with fine and short erect setie ; 

 each rounded at apex and with three tine elevated lines, two 

 ou the disc and one at the margin (humeral). Leys short; 

 femora moderately thickened ; first joint of hind tarsi 

 shorter than the second and third united. 



This new p^cnus seems to agree in many of its cliaracters 

 with Enes, Pasc,, Imt diHers especially in the elongate third 

 joint of its antenme. 



32. Mahenes semifasciata, sp. n. (Pi. XIII. fig. 5.) 



Testaceous-brown, clothed with a rather dense, pale 

 greyish tomentnm and ornamented with dark brown mark- 

 ings; head unicolorous ; antenme fuscous at tip and with 

 tlie first joint also darkened at apex; prothorax finely 

 punctured, with the sides and two broad discal longitudinal 

 bands fuscous-brown ; elytra finely and irregularly punc- 

 tured (the punctures showing a tendency to an arrangement 

 in rows), pale greyish with the humeral callus, a slightly 

 elevated spot on each side of the scutellum, a broad oblique 

 fascia in the middle of each side, not reaching the suture, 

 and some irregular, often obsolete, subapical and sutural 

 spots, blackish or brown and nearly denudate ; a patch on 

 the femora, the apical half of the tibiie and the tarsi also 

 more or less fuscous. Length 4—6 mm. 



Loc. Seychelles: Silhouette, Mah«'', Long I. Silhouette: 

 Mare aux Cochons or forest above, over 1000 feet, ix. 1908, 

 2 examples. Mahe : near Morne Blanc, about 1000 feet, 

 xi. 1908, 1 specimen, and Cascade Estate, about 1000 feet, 

 i. 1909, 1 specimen. Long I., vii. 1908, 1 example. 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 

 Plate XIL 



Fiy. I. Micronoemia albosignata^ gen. et sp. n. (Sejchellee), x 10. 

 Fig. 2. Microiiccmia bifasciata, sp. n. (Seychelles), X 10. 

 Fig. 3. Idobrium sechellantm, sp. u. (Seychelles), X 10 (a rather dark 

 example). 



Platk XIII. 



Fig. 4. rnrailitiKlamin funcoiittata, ^,'en. et sp. n. (Seychelles), X 4. 



Fig. •'). Miibiiies semifasciata, (.'en. et «p. n. (Seychelles), X S. 



Fig. 0. Miiiiecgriiia fasciculata, poii. et sp. u. (llodriguez), X 6. 



Fig. 7. Obriinn nitidicollf, sp. n. (Seychelles), X 8. 



Fig. 6. Pterolophia iustabilia, sp. n., typical form (Seychelles), x 10. 



