CHAMPION—COLEOPTERA ; CURCULIONIDA 409 
14. Tanyomus palmicola, n. sp. (Pl. 22, figs. 12, 12a, ¢.) 
Rather broad, moderately shining, black or pitchy-black, the tarsi and antenns 
ferruginous or obscure ferruginous; the prothorax, rostrum, and legs setulose, the 
elytra with scattered, long, erect, stiff, fulvous sete intermixed towards the sides 
and apex with minute, short, adpressed hairs, the antennze sparsely pilose, the pro- 
jecting hairs on the tarsi fulvous. Rostrum (f) stout, strongly arcuate, longer than 
the prothorax, dull and shallowly punctate above, and with two small tubercles at 
the apex beneath, (?) shorter and more slender, shining, closely punctate; the lateral - 
portions suleate and carimate in both sexes. Prothorax about as broad as long, the 
short anterior lobe narrow; coarsely, closely punctate, the punctures coalescing into 
oblique or sinuous rugee towards the sides and base. LElytra much wider than the 
prothorax, moderately elongate, transversely convex, depressed at the base, the acutely 
produced humeri raised; with rows of rather scattered coarse punctures placed in 
almost obsolete strize, the interstices feebly convex and with the setigerous punctures 
extremely minute. Beneath shining, coarsely, closely punctate, the punctures becoming 
finer towards the apex, the second ventral segment transversely tumid at the base 
in both sexes. 
Length 54—61, breadth 243—3 mm. ($9). 
Loc. Seychelles: Mahé. 
Twelve specimens, found in the high forests of Morne Blane and Pilot (XI. 1908), 
and between Trois Fréres and Morne Seychellois (1500—2000 feet, I. 1909), on the 
concave inner sides of the bases of damp decaying palm-leaves on the ground. 
CYCLOTERINUS. 
Cycloterinus Kolbe, Mitteil. Zool. Mus Berl., v. p. 41 (1910). 
Three species from the Seychelles were referred to Cycloterinus by Kolbe, of which 
C. foveatus may be taken as the type. These forms and various others were found by 
Mr Scott in the same islands, some of them in great abundance. They vary greatly 
mter se in the development of the rostrum in the male (it bemg much longer in this sex 
than in the female in two of the species described by Kolbe), the emargination of the 
apex of the prosternum, the extent of separation of the anterior coxee, the width of 
the third tarsal joint, and the size of the tarsal claws. They agree, however, in 
having the head small, globose, and shining; the eyes transverse, oval, depressed, 
and placed low down immediately behind the base of the rostrum, showing a gradual 
diminution in size till in one species (C. cecus) they are wanting; the tibiz unguiculate 
at the apex; the ventral segments 1 and 2 long and connate, 3 and 4 extremely short, 
the sutures straight; the metasternum very short, without visible episterna; the 
elytra connate, in some of the species with the humeri dentiform or abruptly laminato- 
explanate; the wings wanting. 
