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d’. All the femora, or at least the anterior pair, dentate: body in part 
ferruginous, oblong, more or less setose. 
i‘. Prothorax and elytra with erect sete, the elytra not mucronate in ? 
hispidulus. 
7“. Elytra with erect sete towards apex only, usually mucronate in ? 
cuspidatus. 
ée’. 
Femora unarmed: body black, convex, shining, vestiture wholly decumbent 
lodoicee. 
b.. Anterior coxee widely separated ; wings fully developed ; body elongate, cylin- 
drical, wholly or in part ferruginous: vestiture very fine, decumbent ; ros- 
trum slender in both sexes; all the femora feebly dentate... pandanicola, 
b. Tarsal claws wanting, the claw-joint not, or very slightly, extending beyond the 
third joint; anterior coxee narrowly separated ; femora unarmed ; body oblong, 
black, almost bare above ; rostrum stouter in ¢ than in ?: species small. 
c. Wings fully developed; elytra subcylindrical. 
c. Rostrum of ? abruptly bent and moderately slender... ve. Glarus. 
d®. Rostrum of ? arcuate and extremely slender ... Rs ... Trufitarsis. 
d'. Wings wanting; elytra widened posteriorly _... ae ... sebertensis. 
25. Phenicobates vittatus, n. sp. (Pl. 28, figs. 20, 20a, ¢; 200, anterior tarsus.) 
Very elongate, narrow, subfusiform, feebly shining; black, the antennz (the club 
excepted), the anterior half of the prothorax, a broad stripe running down the disc of each 
elytron, the tibiee, the tarsi in part, and sometimes the intermediate and posterior femora 
also, ferruginous, the prothorax and elytra occasionally entirely black, the elytral vittee in 
immature examples ochreous ; sparsely clothed with minute, adpressed, hair-like, cmereous 
scales. Rostrum opaque in both sexes, shorter than the prothorax ; ($) moderately broad, 
flattened, somewhat depressed, rugulosely punctate, and squamose above, the shovel-shaped 
lower apical portion not wider than the upper portion, feebly carinate above, and with a 
sharp polished medium ridge beneath; (?) straight, slender, finely striate-punctate, and 
almost bare. Head rugulosely punctate, squamose around the eyes. Prothorax much 
longer than broad, narrowed and slightly constricted in front, feebly bisinuate at the base ; 
densely, coarsely punctate, carinate down the middle anteriorly in ?, strongly cucullate in 
front in g. Elytra very elongate, a little wider than the prothorax, gradually narrowing 
from the base in ¢, subparallel in their anterior half in 2, conjointly rounded at the apex ; 
with rows of closely-packed coarse punctures, the interstices narrow and rugulose. 
Beneath coarsely, densely, the ventral segments 2—5 more finely and sparsely, punctate, 
5 transversely depressed at apex in ¢. Anterior coxe narrowly separated. Anterior 
femora armed with a sharp tooth. 
Length (exclud. head) 24—44 mm. 
Loc. Seychelles: Mahé, Silhouette. 
Mahé, found in abundance; high forest of Morne Blane and Pilot, X.—XI. 1908 ; 
high forest between Trois Fréres and Morne Seychellois, XII. 1908 ; forests above Cascade 
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