CHAM PION—COLEOPTERA ; CURCULIONIDA A421 
of the elytra broadly, the base of the femora, the under surface in great part, and the 
antennal club, black or piceous, the femora sometimes wholly ferruginous; sparsely 
clothed with short, fine, decumbent, setiform, whitish scales, those on the elytra uni- 
seriately arranged down each interstice. Rostrum (¢) opaque, moderately stout, almost 
straight, much shorter than the prothorax, rugulosely punctate, squamose; (?) slender, 
shining, finely striate. Prothorax about as long as broad, rounded at the sides, narrowed 
and constricted towards the apex ; densely, finely, rugulosely punctate. Elytra elongate, 
scarcely wider than the prothorax, subcylindrical in both sexes ; coarsely punctate-striate, 
the interstices rugulose, narrow, and somewhat convex; the apices in @ armed with a 
small dentiform prominence. Beneath shining, closely, moderately coarsely punctate ; 
ventral segments 1 and 2 broadly depressed down the middle, and 5 transversely 
depressed near apex, in g. Legs stout; femora each armed with.a short, sharp tooth. 
Length (exclud. head) 223—3 mm. (79). 
Loc. Seychelles: Mahé, Silhouette. 
Mahé: high forest of Morne Blane and Pilot, X.—XI. 1908; forest between Trois 
Freres and Morne Seychellois, 1500—2000 feet, XII. 1908; Cascade Estate and forest 
above; Mare aux Cochons district, 1000—2000 feet, I.—II. 1909. Silhouette, near 
Mont Pot-a-eau, ca. 1500 feet, VIIT. 1908. 
Eleven specimens, varying very little in size. Distinguishable by its ferruginous 
general coloration, with the sides of the prothorax and elytra black, the somewhat robust 
build, the parallel-sided elytra, the fine vestiture, the uniformly unidentate femora, the 
straighter non-spatulate rostrum of the male, and the shining, striate rostrum and 
mucronate apices of the elytra of the female. The rostrum of the male is formed as 
in the same sex of P. albosetosus. 
28. Phenicobates parallelus, n. sp. 
Elongate, cylindrical, somewhat depressed, opaque; ferruginous or brown, the flanks 
of the prothorax and elytra, the head, rostrum, antennal club, femora, and under surface 
in part, usually infuscate or black; sparsely clothed with minute, adpressed, hair-like, 
cinereous or flavo-cinereous scales, those on the elytra uniseriately arranged down each 
interstice. Rostrum (¢) stout, comparatively short, abruptly curved from near the base, 
opaque, squamulose, and rugulosely punctate to the tip, and with the basal portion somewhat 
gibbous (as seen in profile); (?) slender, cylindrical, almost straight, nearly as long as the 
prothorax, shining, finely striate-punctate ; the antennze inserted near the tip in f, and at 
about the middle in $. Prothorax about as long as broad, rounded at the sides, narrowed 
and feebly constricted anteriorly, densely, finely, rugulosely punctate. Hlytra elongate, 
cylindrical, scarcely wider than the prothorax; closely punctate-striate, the interstices 
rugulose. Beneath shining, moderately coarsely, closely punctate; ventral segments 1 
and 2 hollowed down the middle in ¢. Femora each with a small tooth. Tarsal joints 2 
and 3 very broad. 
Length (exclud. head) 13—21 mm. (¢?). 
Loc. Seychelles: Mahé. 
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