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(c) Third segment of tarsi small, posterior angle of the ante-pygidial pleura not 
projecting as a tubercle-—Here belong P. papuanus, Jord. (1904), P. podicalis, Kolbe 
(1895), P. affinis, Kolbe (1895), P. hypoxanthus, Jord. (1911), P. catenatus, Kolbe (1895), 
P. compressicorms, Gylh. (1833), P. quadricommatus, Qued. (1886), P. striga Jord. 
(1904), ete. 
B. Frons with narrow median carina, which is sometimes divided longitudinally.— 
Here belong P. pustulosus, Gerst. (1871), and allies. 
The collection from the Seychelles contains two species, one of which has already 
been recorded from these islands. 
8. Phleobius gigas cervinus (Klug) (1833) (Plate 15, fig. 14). 
Anthribus cervinus, Klug, Abh. Ak. Berlin, 1, p. 188 (1833) (Madagascar). 
Anthribus ngroungulatus, Fahrs. (nec Gylh. 1833), in Schénh., Gen. Curc., 5, p. 241, 
no. 2 (1839) (partim). 
Phieobius nigroungulatus, Lacord., Gen. Col., vii. p. 577 (1866); Gemm. & Har., 
Cat. Col., 9, p. 274 (1872); Fairm., Bull. Soc. Ent. France, p. 324 (1893) (Seychelles) ; 
Kolbe, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 5, p. 39 (1910) (Mahé). 
Several specimens of both sexes. 
Loc. Mahé: Cascade Estate, 800—1000 ft., 1908—9. likewise collected in the 
Seychelles by J. de Gaye and J. J. Lister, no special localities being given with the 
specimens. 
Also known to me from Mauritius, Bourbon and Madagascar. 
This form is not the same as P. nigroungulatus Gylh. (1833). Through the kindness 
of Professor Y. Sjéstedt, I have been enabled to examine the type-specimen of that insect, 
a 2 from Canton, as well as a ¢ from Madagascar referred by Fahreens in 1839 to 
nigroungulatus. The ? is an immature specimen. Its legs are very pale, but there is 
nevertheless a vestige of a fuscous patch at the base and beyond the centre of the tibiz. 
The elytrum bears on the basal swelling four black spots, of which the anterior one of the 
inner pair is the largest, its pubescence being slightly prolonged so as almost to form 
a tuft. The black spots along the suture and in the apical half of the third, fifth and 
seventh interspaces are also conspicuous, while the declivous apical area is uniformly 
buffish grey and sharply defined. We have specimens from Japan which agree with the 
type of nigroungulatus except in the derm being darker (mature examples). As far as 
I can judge from the rather scanty material I have seen of true negroungulatus, I am 
inclined to regard this insect as a western form of Phlaobius gigas, and cervinus as the 
Mascarene subspecies of the same species. 
True gigas, better known under the later name of griseus Fabr. (1792), inhabits the 
Papuan Subregion, occurring from Celebes to Australia and New Guinea (inclusive of the 
adjacent islands), and is characterised by bolder white markings and by the apex of the 
claw-segments of the tarsi and the claws themselves being rufescent instead of black. 
The Mascarene subspecies, cervinus Klug, ditters from negrowngulatus in the white 
dots on the pronotum as well as the black spots on the elytra being less distinct, in the 
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