CHAMPION—COLEOPTERA ; CURCULIONID& 397 
This peculiar little apterous Otiorrhynchid may be known by its short, sulcate, 
apically foveate rostrum, with large, deep, lateral scrobes, the apically inserted antenne, 
the convex eyes, the subcordate, basally emarginate elytra, the equal length of the first 
two ventral segments, the powerful tarsal claws, and the strongly setose body, antennee, 
and legs. The insect appears to inhabit the forests on the highest peaks of Silhouette and 
Mahé. Some of the specimens captured by Mr Scott were found in the pitchers of 
Nepenthes. Lepydnus belongs to Lacordaire’s “‘ Otiorhynchides vrais.” 
2. Lepydnus nepenthicola, n. sp. (Pl. 22, figs. 2, 2a.) 
Moderately elongate, somewhat flattened above, piceous or reddish-brown ; somewhat 
thickly clothed with minute cupreous or golden scales, which are in great part hidden by 
a dark brown exudation, and also, the antennz and legs included, set with blunt, dark 
setee, the sete often long and erect on the elytra; the surface closely punctate. Rostrum 
shallowly trisuleate, the median groove terminating in a deep fovea. Prothorax nearly as 
long as broad, abruptly constricted and much narrowed anteriorly, and also constricted 
just before the base, the disc somewhat uneven. Elytra much wider than the prothorax, 
the humeri rounded and anteriorly produced; with rows of closely placed coarse 
punctures, the interstices densely punctate and feebly convex. Beneath with coarse 
scattered punctures intermixed with the fine punctuation ; metasternum slightly hollowed 
down the middle in 2. 
Length (includ. rostr.) 375—44, breadth 14—2 mm. (f9). 
Loc. Seychelles: Silhouette, Mahé. Silhouette: near Mont Pot-a-eau, ca. 1500 feet, 
VIII. 1908, 3 specimens; found floating in pitchers of Nepenthes on highest peaks, over 
2000 feet, VIII. 1908, 2 specimens. Mahé: Mare aux Cochons district, 1500—2000 feet, 
I—IL. 1909; from forest of stunted “‘Capucin” (Northea) trees on summit of “Montagne 
Anse Major,” 2000 feet, II. 1909; Cascade Estate. 
Ten specimens, varying in size, in the development of the humeri, and in the length 
of the elytral setze. The setze on the tarsi extend on to the claw-joint, and those on the 
antennal scape are very conspicuous. The cupreous scales are scarcely visible in dirty 
examples. In one of the two Silhouette specimens labelled as found in Nepenthes the 
elytral setze are short and wholly decumbent, like those on the prothorax. 
BRACHYCYRTUS. 
Brachycyrtus Fairmaire, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1886, p. 76, pl. 2, fig. 10. 
This genus is based upon a single species from Madagascar. An insect found by 
Fryer on Aldabra agrees so nearly with Fairmaire’s description and figure of B. seto- 
jasciatus* that it can be treated as congeneric for the present. 
3. Brachycyrtus minor, n. sp. (Pl. 22, figs. 3, 3a.) 
Obovate, rufo-piceous, the antennal club infuscate; densely clothed with brownish- 
white scales, the elytra each with an interrupted, oblique, angulate fascia towards the 
apex and a small patch at the base fuscous, the prothorax and elytra also set with rather 
* This insect is given nine joints to the funiculus in the otherwise excellent figure. 
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