No. XIII.—COLEOPTERA: ANTHRIBID AL. 
By K. Jorpan, Ph.D. 
(ComMUNICATED BY Pror. J. STANLEY GaRpINER, M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S.) 
(Plate 15.) 
Read Ist May, 1913. 
ONLY two species of Anthribidze have hitherto been recorded from the Seychelles. 
The present collection contains no less than 21 species, the majority being minute and 
many represented by a long series of specimens, testifying to the diligent search bestowed 
by Mr Hugh Scott on small Coleoptera. 
The greater number of the Seychelles Anthribidze are of small size, a feature also met 
with in the Anthribidee of St Helena, New Zealand, and the northern temperate regions, 
and a large percentage is indigenous, belonging to genera not known to be represented 
outside the Seychelles. 
As must be expected, the affinities of the species are with Madagascan and African 
forms on the one hand and Indian species on the other. The majority of the species 
belong to that division of the family in which the antennz are inserted on the dorsal 
surface of the rostrum and which we call Anocering Lac. It is worthy of note that all 
the Anthribide known from St Helena also belong to this division, which is likewise more 
abundantly represented in Madagascar than in Africa, the Oriental Region and America. 
While, however, the Mascarene Anocerinz belong to a large extent to Caranistes and 
allied genera, this genus has not been found in the Seychelles. Nor has a species of 
Tophoderes been met with, a genus abundant in species on Madagascar. Xenotropis 
rugicollis, Fairm. (1895), described from La Digue, but not contained in the present 
collection, is of Mascarene affinity; Phlaobius gugas cervinus, Klug (1833), as well as a 
new species of Hpitaphius, also point to Madagascar, and Phla@obius pustulosus, Gerst. (1871) 
is found, besides the Seychelles, in Madagascar and in Kast Africa. On the other hand, 
Contexta murina, Jord. (1901) was only known from Ceylon, and the new genus 
Hormiscops comes nearest to the Oriental genus Phaulimaa. 
A feature not without interest is the great similarity which some of the minute 
Anthribidz bear to species of other families of beetles, such as Clerids, Anthicids and 
Scaphidiids, the resemblance being so close that I only detected the strangers among the 
Seychelles Anthribidze when I began to work out the collection. 
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