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having the rostrum (?) more slender, the prothorax more rounded at the sides, the elytra 
relatively shorter, more convex, and more coarsely punctate-striate. The examples 
described were found in the Coco-de-mer forest, in the Vallée de Mai, on the Cétes d’Or 
Estate, on Nov. 28th and 29th, 1908. The insect may be attached to Lodoicea, the 
Coco-de-mer palm. 
34. Pheenrcobates depressirostris, n. sp. 
Moderately elongate, rather convex, somewhat shining; black, the antennz (the 
club excepted) and tarsi ferruginous; sparsely clothed with coarse, scattered, adpressed, 
setiform, white scales, those on the elytra uniseriately arranged down each interstice. 
Rostrum (¢) stout, about as long as the prothorax, depressed towards the middle, sinuate 
and strongly arcuate beneath (as seen in profile), and rugosely punctate to the tip ; (?) 
slender, cylindrical, nearly straight, opaque, closely striate-punctate, shining at the tip ; 
antennze inserted near the apex in fg, and at about the apical third in ?. Prothorax as 
long as broad, rounded at the sides, narrowed and constricted anteriorly ; densely punctate, 
sometimes with an indication of an abbreviated smooth median line. Elytra slightly 
wider than the prothorax, subparallel in their basal half; closely, rather coarsely punctate- 
striate, the interstices rugulose. Beneath shining, very sparsely punctate; ventral 
segment 1 slightly hollowed down the middle, and 5 with a transverse depression, in ¢. 
Femora unarmed, the anterior pair much thickened in ¢. Tarsal joints 2 and 3 moderately 
dilated. 
Length (exclud. head) 14—2 mm. (#9). 
Loc. Seychelles: Mahé. ) 
Twenty specimens, including a pair mounted on the same piece of card, all from the 
Cascade Estate, from an altitude of about 1000 feet. In this insect the rostrum of the 
male is depressed at about the middle, and strongly arcuate and sinuate beneath (as seen 
in profile), much as in the same sex of the very different P. flexirostris. The females 
are separable from those of P. curvipes by the less curved tibiz, the slightly longer 
rostrum, the smoother ventral surface and the coarser vestiture, which shows no sign 
‘of condensation into a definite line on the second elytral interstice towards the apex. 
35. Phanicobates foveiventris, n. sp. 
Moderately elongate, subopaque ; black or piceous, the antennze and tarsi ferruginous; 
sparsely clothed with small, white, adpressed, setiform scales, those on the elytra uniseri- 
ately arranged down each interstice. Rostrum (%) about as long as the prothorax, very 
stout, sinuate, strongly tumid near the base above and with the lower apical portion 
dilated into a shovel-shaped process (appearing broad and strongly sinuate when viewed 
in profile), rugosely punctate and squamose to the tip; (?) slender, cylindrical, almost 
straight, shining throughout, at most feebly striate-punctate. Prothorax slightly longer 
than broad, somewhat rounded at the sides, narrowed and constricted anteriorly in 2, less 
distinctly so in 2; densely punctate. Elytra moderately long, subparallel in their basal 
half in both sexes, very little wider than the prothorax in ¢, and of about the same width 
in 2; closely punctate-striate, the interstices very narrow and rugulose. Beneath shining, 
