THE ANXALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY, [EIGHTH SERIES.] " perlitoraspargrte museum. Naiades, et circum vitreos considite fontes ; Polliee virgineo teneros hie earpite flores: Floribns et pietiira. divae, replete canistrura. At ros, o Nymphae Craterides. ite sub undas ; lie, recurvato variata eorallia truneo Vellite mustosis e rupihus. et mihi conchas Ferte, De* pelat^i, et piiigni eonchylia sncco." N.Parthenii Giannettaai, Eol. No. 109. JANUARY 1917. I. — -Corylotilii'-lfe \ Coleoptera^ from the Seychelles and Ran-goon. By Hugh Scott, M.A., F.L.S., Curator in Ento-mology ill the University of Cambridge. [Plates I.-V.] The main purpose of this paper is to give an account of the Coiylophid beetles obtained by the Percy Shiden Trust Expe-dition of 1905 and 1908-9 in the Seychelles and other ishands of the Western Indian Ocean. But I have also included ceifain forms taken at Rangoon in 1911. The actual sources of these two sets of material may be considered separately, as follows : — (A) Rangoon. — The specimens were collected from a nest of Alunia striata^ a bird belongin<>-to the Pl-oce id ae or weaver-birds, on Oct. 9th, 1911, by Dr. H. H. Mar.shall, M.O.H., and sent by hiin in alcohol to Professor G. H. F. Nuttall at the Quick Laboratory, Cambridge. Professor Nuttall kindly handed over the Coleoptera to me. They consist of thiee species of Corylophidse — namely, Arfhrolips jlavicolh's, Matthews, Orthoperus munioe, sp. n., and Orlhoperus sp. iiidet., as well as a single example of an undetermined Ann. & Mag. N. IJiat. Ser. 8. Vol. xix. 1
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