250 PERCY SLADEN TRUST EXPEDITION 
2. Sintorops alleus, spec. nov. (Plate 15, figs. 1, 2). 
$%. Sordide ochraceus vel nigro-brunneus, pube sat sparsa grisea parum maculatim 
vestitus, elytrorum interstitiis alternis fusco-tessellatis, antennis pedibusque pallidioribus, - 
antennarum articulis 9° et 10° apicibus exceptis brunneo-nigris, 11° luteo; omnino 
grossissime ac dense punctatus. 
Long. (cap. excl.) 3°5—5 mm. 
A considerable series of both sexes was obtained. The colour varies from a dirty pale 
ochreous to blackish brown, the suture being blackish in most pale $3, while many 22 bear 
a blackish patch or transverse band at the commencement of the apical declivity of the 
elytra. The grey pubescence does not conceal the colour of the derm and forms ill-defined 
spots on the pronotum and elytra, a spot at the shoulders being especially noticeable. 
There are no tufts or tubercles, the basal callosities of the elytra also being but feebly 
developed. 
The prothorax is rather abruptly constricted at the apex, the sides slightly slanting 
from the dorsal carina forward in the ?, while they are parallel in the @. 
Segment 3 of the g-antenna is half as long again as 1 and 2 together and one-third 
longer than 8, 9 is one-fifth shorter than 8 and one-fifth longer than 10, 11 being a trifle 
longer than 10. In the ? segment 3 is one-fourth or one-fifth longer than 8, and 8 to 11 
are equal in length, only 10 being a very little shorter than the others. 
Loc. Mahé: high forest of Morne Blanc, X. XI. 1908; high damp forest between 
Trois Fréres and Morne Seychellois, about 1500—2000 ft., XII. 1908; Cascade Estate, 
forest, about 1000 ft., I.—III. 1909, and near Mt. Harrison, 1700 ft., III. 1909 ; Mare aux 
Cochons district, 1000—2000 ft., I. II. 1909. Silhouette: high forest above 2000 ft., VIII. 
1908, also from 1500 ft.; Mare aux Cochons, IX.; high forest above Mare aux Cochons, 
IX. 1908. Type from Mahé. 
The specimens were beaten from dead leaves, etc. One has been “ bred from a larva 
found in a fallen and rotting palm-leaf” above Mare aux Cochons on Silhouette. 
HorMIscops, gen. nov. 
$9. Phaulimie Pasc. (1860) affinis. Rostrum brevissimum, longitudine duplo latius, 
ad apicem ampliatum, margine apicali recto. Oculi magni, obliqui, subdorsales, sat fortiter 
granulosi, subintegri vel subtiliter sinuati. Frons capitis antrorsum angustata, antice 
dimidio rostri angustior. Antenne breviter pilose, clava compressa articulis remotis. 
Labium sat profunde divisum. Palpi maxillares crassi. Carina pronoti basalis, utrinque 
antrorsum continuata laterum medium non attingens. Prosternum breve ; metasternum 
inter coxas medias haud reflexo-marginatum, sclerito transverso antecoxali in medio 
interrupto. Tarsorum articulus primus ceteris simul sumptis longior vel equalis ; 
unguiculi fortiter dentati—Genotypus: H. tibealis, spec. nov. 
There are four species in the collection. They are small Anthribids which recall by 
their short and convex body the American genera Husphyrus Lec. (1876) and Ormiscus 
Waterh. (1845), but are most nearly related to the Oriental genus Phaulunua, differing 
