426 PERCY SLADEN TRUST EXPEDITION 
rather coarsely punctate; ventral segment 1 broadly excavate down the middle, and 
5 with a deep rounded fovea at the apex, in ¢. Femora unarmed; anterior pair of 
very stout (appearing strongly arcuate, or even gibbous, in front, when the insect 
is viewed in profile, with the legs unextended). ‘Tarsal joints 2 and 3 moderately 
widened. 
Length (exclud. head) 15—13 mm. (¢9). 
Loc. Seychelles: Mahé, Silhouette. 
Found in Mahé in the high forest of Morne Blanc and Pilot, the country above Port 
Glaud ca. 1000 feet, the forests above Cascade Estate, and the Mare aux Cochons district : 
also one specimen from the Silhouette Mare aux Cochons. Eleven specimens, nine of 
which are males, showing various degrees of development of the rostrum. The two 
females referred to this species (one of which is mounted on the same card with 
a typical male) may be known from the corresponding sex of all the nearly allied 
forms by the shining smoother rostrum, the latter being almost impunctate in one 
example. 
36. Phanicobates curvipes, n. sp. 
Moderately elongate, robust, dull; black, the antennee (the club excepted) and tarsi, 
and sometimes the tip of the rostrum (?) and the anterior margin of the prothorax also, 
ferruginous or rufo-testaceous ; sparsely clothed with rather coarse, adpressed, setiform, 
white scales, those on the elytra arranged in an irregular line down each interstice, 
usually becoming closer and regularly placed on the second towards the apex. Rostrum 
(¢) stout, a little shorter than the prothorax, curved, more or less tumid above behind 
the middle (so as to appear constricted at the base), rugosely punctate and squamose to 
the tip; (¢) slender, cylindrical, almost straight, bare, closely striate and opaque, shining 
at the tip only ; the antennz inserted near the apex in ¢, and considerably beyond the 
middle in ¢. Eyes depressed. Prothorax slightly longer than broad, feebly rounded 
at the sides, constricted towards the apex, more narrowed anteriorly in $ than in ; 
densely punctate. Elytra moderately long, wider than the prothorax, gradually narrowed 
from the base in ¢, subparallel in their basal half in 3; closely, rather coarsely punctate- 
striate, the interstices rugulose. Beneath shining, rather sparsely punctate ; first’ two 
ventral segments broadly depressed down the. middle in g. Legs short, stout ; femora 
unarmed, the anterior pair greatly thickened ; anterior and intermediate tibie strongly 
bowed at the base in both sexes, and arcuately dilated externally ; tarsal] jomts 2 and 3 
very broadly dilated. 
Length (execlud. head) 145—14% mm. (¢). 
Loc. Seychelles: Mahé, Silhouette. 
Mahé, found in the high forest of Morne Blanc and Pilot, the country above Port 
Gland, the high forests above Cascade Estate, and the Mare aux Cochons district 
1000—2000 feet ; Silhouette, found in the forests above Mare aux Cochons. 
A long series, varying greatly in size and in the development of the tumid upper 
portion of the rostrum in the male. Viewed in profile, the rostrum in this sex is also 
