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Estate, up to 2000 feet ; Mare aux Cochons district, 1000—2000 feet, I.—IT. 1909 ; Morne 
Seychellois, II. 1909. Silhouette : only two or three specimens were found, VIII.—IX. 1908. 
A large, elongate form, superficially resembling a small Lixus, with the anterior 
femora strougly dentate, the elytra usually vittate. Both this species and the next 
vary greatly in size. 
26. Phaenicobates flexirostris, n. sp. (PI. 23, figs. 21, 21a, g; 22, 9.) 
Elongate, subfusiform (%), subcylindrical (2), opaque, the elytra and under surface 
feebly shining; varying in colour from nigro-piceous with the front of the prothorax, 
a broad dorsal stripe on each elytron, and the last three ventral segments ferruginous to 
almost entirely black (the tarsi and antennee excepted) or ferruginous, the antennee (the 
club excepted) always of that colour, the legs usually obscure ferruginous, with the 
anterior femora more or less infuscate; sparsely clothed with rather coarse, adpressed, 
setiform, cinereous or ochreous scales, which are condensed into four faint lines on the 
prothorax and a line down each elytral interstice, the scales on the third interstice 
clustered into an oblong spot at the base and another at about the basal fourth in ¢. 
Rostrum opaque in both sexes, shorter than the prothorax; (¢) broad, abruptly bent 
downwards at the middle, rugosely punctate and squamose above, the shovel-shaped, 
horizontal, lower apical portion dilated posteriorly, extending outwards beyond the upper 
portion, and with a polished lanciform median ridge beneath ; (?) straight, slender, sparsely, 
finely striate-punctate, and almost bare. Head rugosely punctate, squamose. Prothorax 
longer than broad, feebly constricted near the apex, rounded at the sides anteriorly ; 
densely, rugosely punctate, carinate down the middle anteriorly in ?. LElytra a little 
wider than the prothorax, narrowing from the base in g, subparallel in their anterior 
half in 2, transversely depressed on the disc at the middle and below the base, the 
intervening space appearing tumid in ¢; coarsely, closely punctate-striate, the interstices 
narrow and transversely rugose. Beneath coarsely, densely, the ventral segments 2—5 
more finely and sparsely, punctate, the first segment hollowed down the middle, and the 
fifth transversely depressed at the apex, in ¢. Anterior coxee well separated. Anterior 
femora armed with a sharp oblique tooth. 
Length 2—4 mm. (29). 
Loc. Seychelles: Mahé, Silhouette. 
Found in large numbers in both islands: in Mahé, in much the same localities as the 
preceding species; in Silhouette, both near Mont Pot-i-eau and the Mare aux Cochons. 
The abruptly bent, more strongly spatulate rostrum of the male, the coarser vestiture, 
which is condensed into two short streaks or spots on the third elytral interstice in the 
same sex, and the more oblique femoral tooth, distinguish this species in all its varieties 
from P. vittatus. Viewed in profile, the elytra of the male are transversely tumid before 
the middle and have at this place a condensed patch of scales on the third interstice, which 
is almost or quite wanting in the female. Small feebly-developed males have the rostrum 
less abruptly bent downwards and less dilated. 
27. Phenicobates cylindricus, n. sp. 
Elongate, subcylindrical, opaque; ferruginous, the flanks of the prothorax, the sides 
