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slightly arcuate at the middle beneath, and narrower towards the base and apex. Small 
females can be separated from the extremely closely allied P. tenuis by their relatively 
broader elytra, less prominent eyes, and rather stouter anterior femora. Compared with 
P. gibbirostris, the legs and rostrum (f) are shorter and stouter, the prothorax is 
much less constricted anteriorly, the scales on the upper surface are smaller, and the 
body is almost wholly black. 
37. Phenicobates simplex, n. sp. 
Moderately elongate, robust, dull (shining when denuded); black, the suture and 
anterior margin of the prothorax sometimes piceous or reddish, the antennz (the club 
excepted) ferruginous, the tarsi piceous or obscure ferruginous; sparsely clothed with 
minute, adpressed, cinereous or whitish setiform scales, those on the elytra uniseriately 
arranged down each interstice. Rostrum (¢) stout, shorter than the prothorax, flattened 
above and slightly arcuate beneath (as seen in profile), rugose and squamose ; (?) slender, 
cylindrical, opaque, closely striate-punctate. Eyes not prominent. Prothorax slightly 
longer than broad, subeylindrical, feebly constricted and a little narrowed anteriorly ; 
closely, coarsely punctate, sometimes with a short smooth median line on the disc. 
Elytra moderately long, convex, a little wider than the prothorax, subparallel at the 
base in both sexes; rather coarsely punctate-striate, the interstices rugulose. Ventral 
segments 1 and 2 broadly, shallowly depressed down the middle in f. Legs stout ; 
femora unarmed; anterior and intermediate tibie arcuate externally; tarsal joints 
2 and 3 moderately dilated. 
Length (exclud. head) 14—14 mm. (79). 
Loc. Seychelles: Mahé, Silhouette. 
Found in Mahé in the forests above Cascade Estate, the country above Port Glaud, 
and the Mare aux Cochons district, at 1000—2000 feet: in Silhouette, at the Mare 
aux Cochons and in the forest above. Nine specimens, all males but two. This insect 
is very closely related to P. curvipes, from which it differs in having the rostrum of 
the male flattened and not in the least tumid above, the elytra subparallel at the base 
in both sexes, and the anterior tibiee less curved. The non-sinuate, shorter rostrum of 
the male separates the present species from P. depressirostris. The tarsi are usually 
infuseate. Abraded examples are shining and coarsely punctate above. 
38. Phenicobates tenuis, n. sp. 
Moderately elongate, narrow, somewhat convex, opaque (shining when denuded 
of the vestiture) ; black or piceous, the antenne, tip of the rostrum, and tarsi ferruginous, 
the tarsi often infuscate ; thickly set with cinereous or whitish, rather coarse, adpressed, 
setiform scales, those on the elytra uniseriately arranged down each interstice. Rostrum 
(¢) stout, shorter than the prothorax, feebly curved above (as seen in profile), rugosely 
punctate and squamose to the tip; (?) slender, cylindrical, almost straight, opaque, 
closely striate-punctate ; the antennz inserted near the tip in 2g, and considerably beyond 
the middle in ¢. Eyes rather prominent. Prothorax longer than broad, feebly con- 
stricted and narrowed anteriorly; closely punctate. Elytra long, not or very little 
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