1^' THE ANXALS A2rD MAGiZ[XE OF NAT[JRiL HISTORY. [EIGHTH SERIES.] No. 110. FEBRUARY 1917. Xir. — Coleoptera, Heteromera {excluding Tenebrionidse) from the Seychelles Islands and Aldabra *. By George Charles CnAMPiONf, F.Z.S. [Plate VI.] The material reported upon in the present paper forms part of the colleotions made by the Percy Sladen Trust Expedi-tions of 1905 aud 1908-9 in the Seychelles and other islands of the Western Indian Ocean *. The twenty-six species of Heteromerous Coleoptera enumerated belong to eight families, the Monommidae, Cistelidse ( = Alleculid8e), Melan-dryidae, ffidemeridae, Anthicidse, Pedilidse^ Xylophilidse, and Mordellidfe. The Tenebrionidse (at present in the hands of Herr Hans Gebien) are not included. The collections examined illustrate the abundance of certain (Edemerids, Xylopliilids, and Mordellids (Mo7'dellistena) in the islands and the preseuce of two peculiar Melandryid genera in the Seychelles. A first set of the material, including the types of all new forms, will be placed in the British Museum. * Many results of this Expedition have been published In a special series of volumes of the Linnean Society's * Transactions ' (ser. 2, Zool. vols, xii.-xvii.). Ann. ct Mag, X IHst. Ser. 8. VoL xix. 11
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