CHAMPION—COLEOPTERA ; CURCULIONID Ai 405 
depressed down the middle; eyes large.” The excavate prosternum of Cycloterodes is 
suggestive of the Cryptorrhynchina, but the rostrum is free and does not even rest upon 
the subcontiguous anterior coxee in repose. There is an insect from Ceylon in the British 
Museum, standing under the MS. name Cycloteres rugulosus, Dohrn, that belongs to the 
same genus. The type is a large apterous insect, with the surface densely coated with 
minute earthy-looking scales, and also set with short erect setze. 
11. Cycloterodes sechellarum. (Pl. 22, figs. 9, 9a, 3.) 
Cycloterodes sechellarum Kolbe, Mitteil. Zool. Mus. Berl., v. p. 44 (1910). 
Loc. Seychelles: Silhouette, Mahe. 
Described from a single example from Silhouette. Mr Scott found a long series of it 
in Silhouette, and one in Mahé. In the former island it was found in numbers at the 
Mare aux Cochons plateau, at an elevation of 1000 feet, at night, crawling on the palm- 
lath hut-walls, or on the trunks of some Jack-fruit trees near by, often in wet weather. 
Kolbe’s description must have been made from a dirty specimen, as he does not mention 
the numerous tuberculiform prominences scattered along the elytral interstices, some of 
which are clothed with black scales, two at the base of each elytron (like the two on the 
anterior portion of the prothorax) being conspicuous; the elytra, too, have each two or 
three dirty-white transversely-placed spots at about one-third from the tip. The rostrum 
of the female is bare at the apex, and less convex and more feebly carinate above than in 
the male. The first ventral segment of the male is very broadly, feebly depressed. 
KUCYCLOTERES, n. gen. 
Rostrum strongly deflexed, resting on the anterior coxae in repose, short, very stout, 
slightly widened outwards, the scrobes very deep, superiorly placed, extending forwards to 
the apex above and running obliquely downwards to beneath the eyes posteriorly, the 
antennee inserted near the tip; mandibles dentate within, without scar, visible beyond the 
tip of the rostrum when closed; mentum very small, transverse; eyes oval, transverse, 
moderately large, separated by the width of the rostrum, incompletely hidden in repose ; 
antennz with 7-jointed funiculus, joints 1 and 2 elongate, the others short and moniliform, 
the club ovate, the scape reaching the eyes; prothorax with its broadly rounded base 
accurately fitted to that of the elytra; scutellum wanting; prosternum deeply arcuate- 
emarginate in front, unimpressed, the anterior portion extremely short; anterior coxz 
subcontiguous, the intermediate coxee moderately, the posterior coxze very widely, separated ; 
metasternum extremely short, without visible episterna ; ventral segments 1 and 2 connate, 
2 less than half the length of 1, 3 and 4 extremely short, the first suture sinuate, the 
others straight; legs robust; femora dentate; tibiee angularly dilated at the middle 
within, unguiculate at the inner apical angle, and with a short tooth on the inner side 
near the apex; tarsi stout, spongy-pubescent beneath, joint 1 triangular, 2 transverse, 
3 broadly bilobed, narrowly emarginate for the reception of the claw-joint, the claws free; 
body robust, subrotundate, Erodiiform, densely coated with minute earthy-looking scales, 
apterous. 
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