396 PERCY SLADEN TRUST EXPEDITION 
femora excepted) and antennze rufo-testaceous or reddish-brown ; almost glabrous above, 
the punctures on the pygidium, under surface, and legs each bearing a minute hair-like 
scale, the tibize very finely ciliate within, the hairs longer in . Rostrum stout, widened 
outwards, finely punctate, very little longer than the enormously developed coalescent 
eyes ; head with the basal portion subglobose, moderately exserted, and sparsely minutely | 
punctate. Prothorax transverse, very convex, campanulate, bisinuate and sharply mar- 
gined at the base; transversely strigose and faintly punctate, deeply sulcate within the 
basal margin and shallowly grooved within the anterior margin. Elytra broad, sub- 
triangular, transversely depressed on the disc below the base, separately rounded at the 
apex ; sharply punctate-striate, the seriate punctures (except at the base) extending 
outwards across the broad, subangular interstices, which thus appear strongly transversely 
rugose. Legs elongated, the anterior pair especially, in ¢, shorter in ?; tibie finely 
serrulate within, the anterior and intermediate pairs bowed, elongate, and strongly 
unguiculate in ¢, the anterior pair short and deeply sinuate within in 9. 
Length 3—4 mm. (¢9). 
Loc. Seychelles: Silhouette. 
Fourteen specimens, varying a little in colour. ‘‘ Beaten from bushes or small trees, 
on or near the plateau of Mare aux Cochons, at an altitude of about 1000 feet, Sept. 
1908.” The smoother head, eneo-piceous colour, &c., separate this species from 
EH. suffundens. 
Sub-fam. Otiorrhynchine. 
Sect. Otiorrhynchine Aptere. 
LEPYDNUS, n. gen. 
Rostrum broad, short, not longer than the head, truncate at the tip, suleate, the 
median groove terminating in a smooth fovea in front, the scrobes lateral, very, large, 
deep, angular, extending backwards to above the eyes; antennze long, inserted at the 
apex of the rostrum, rather slender, the scape curved, joint 1 of the funiculus obovate, 
2—7 small and submoniliform, the club large, ovate; eyes rounded, convex, lateral, 
coarsely facetted; mandibular scars small; mentum transverse, covering the maxillee ; 
prothorax constricted at the base and towards the apex, truncate in front and behind ; 
scutellum wanting; elytra oblongo-cordate, broadly mflexed at the sides beneath, the 
humeri extending forwards; anterior and intermediate coxee narrowly, the posterior coxz 
very widely, separated; metasternum very short, the episterna not visible ; abdomen 
greatly narrowed posteriorly, segments 1 and 2 equal in length, 3 and 4 short, 
3—5 narrow, the intercoxal process broadly truncate in front, the first suture deeply 
sinuate ; legs rather slender; femora clavate; anterior and intermediate tibiz sharply, 
the posterior tibize feebly, unguiculate, the latter widened at the tip and with the 
cavernous articular space narrow and apical; tarsi with joint 3 bilobed, the claws long, 
stout, and divergent ; body oval, squamose and setose throughout, apterous. 
Type, L. nepenthicola, 

