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Loc. Seychelles: Bird Island, 1908 (Fryer). Amirantes: Desroches Island and 
Eagle Island, 1905. 
Eleven specimens: one found on Eagle Island, on October 17th, 1905, under stones ; 
another on Desroches, in the same month; and nine on Bird Island, in July, 1908. 
I have seen allied unnamed forms from Amboyna and Mauritius, and B. multwaga, 
therefore, if introduced, is doubtless a native of the Malayan islands or adjacent 
regions. Certain 8. European members of the genus, too, come rather near it, such as 
B. spoliata, Boh. 
69. Baris seychellensis, n. sp. 
Oblong, subopaque, black; sparsely clothed with minute, narrow, cinereous scales, 
which tend to form a faint median vitta on the prothorax, the elytra with a double row 
of larger white scales at the base of the third interstice. Rostrum stout, about as long as 
the prothorax, abruptly arcuate from the base, separated from the head by a deep 
transverse groove, rugosely punctate to the tip, the antenne inserted at the apical third ; 
head rugulosely punctured. Prothorax subquadrate, sinuate at the sides towards the 
base, abruptly constricted before the apex, tubulate in front, the base deeply bisinuate ; 
coarsely, closely punctate. Elytra wider than the prothorax, comparatively short, the 
humeri obliquely truncate, becoming tumid laterally ; finely, narrowly striate, the inter- 
stices broad, flat, irregularly uniseriate-punctate, and transversely rugose, the sculpture 
becoming denser towards the sides. Pygidium narrowly exposed. Beneath shining, 
very coarsely, the ventral segments finely and sparsely, punctate ; prosternum arcuate- 
emarginate at the apex, and with a deep transverse sulcus in the middle anteriorly ; 
anterior cox separated by a little less than their own width; first ventral segment 
unimpressed. Legs rugosely punctate. 
Length 25 mm. (@ ?). 
Loc. Seychelles: Mahé. 
One specimen, found on the Cascade Estate, at an elevation of about 1000 feet, in 
January, 1909. This species will probably have to be removed from Baris, but it can 
remain under that genus for the present. . seychellensis bears a certain resemblance to 
some of the numerous American Pseudobaris, but the prosternum is not sulcate for the 
reception of the antenne, &c. 
Group Cyladina. 
CYLAS. 
Cylas Latreille, Hist. Nat. Crust. et Ins., 11. p. 196 (1802). 
One species of this remarkable genus, the Sweet-potato weevil, has been found in the 
Seychelles, where it has certainly been introduced, as in Hawaii, Guiana, &c. 
70. Cylas formicarius. 
Brentus formicarius Fabr., Ent. Syst., Suppl., p. 174 (1798). 
Cylas formicarius Maskew, Monthly Bull. State Comm. Hort., Sacramento, Calif., 11. 
pp. 535—587, figs. (1913). 
