CHAMPION—COLEOPTERA ; CURCULIONIDAI 429 
Thirty-eight specimens. A small, convex, black or piceous form, almost glabrous 
and opaque above, and comparatively smooth, opaque, and densely alutaceous beneath, 
the femora unarmed, the tarsal joints 2 and 3 moderately dilated. The first ventral 
segment is almost unimpressed in the male. 
40. Phenicobates gibbirostris, n. sp. (Pl. 28, figs. 23, 23a, 3g.) 
Moderately elongate, opaque ; ferruginous, rarely piceous with the antennee (the club 
excepted) and tarsi ferruginous; clothed with irregularly distributed, coarse, curled, 
decumbent, yellowish, setiform scales. Rostrum (f%) stout, curved, shorter than the 
prothorax, gibbous and inflated towards the base above, rugosely punctate and squamose 
to the tip; (2) straight, slender, flattened-cylindrical, closely striate-punctate. Prothorax 
as long as broad, strongly constricted beyond the middle, rounded at the sides, the basal 
portion in fully developed males as wide as the elytra, much narrower in smaller males 
and in 9, the anterior portion somewhat tubulate; densely, finely punctate. Elytra 
moderately long, subparallel at the base; rather coarsely punctate-striate, the interstices 
narrow and rugulose. Beneath alutaceous, sparsely punctate; first ventral segment 
obsoletely foveate at the apex in #2. Femora unarmed. ‘Tarsal joints 2 and 3 moderately 
dilated. 
Length (exclud. head) 13—24 mm. (?9). 
Loc. Seychelles: Silhouette, Mahé. 
Found in abundance in the same localities as the preceding species, the specimens as 
usual varying much in size, the males, however, always having the rostrum conspicuously 
inflated and gibbous above, instead of being angularly dilated beneath as in the same 
sex of P. stevensonie and P. stricticollis. The coarse elytral vestiture is irregularly 
distributed in the present species, showing very little tendency to a linear arrangement, 
and there is no trace of bare transverse fascize. 
41. Phanicobates stricticollis, n. sp. (Pl. 28, figs. 24, 24a, 3g.) 
Moderately elongate, narrow, opaque; ferruginous or obscure ferruginous, the 
antennal club infuscate, the base of the prothorax and a common transverse subapical 
fascia on the elytra—sometimes extending forwards along the sides or reduced to a 
marginal spot on each elytron—black ; somewhat thickly clothed with coarse, curled, 
decumbent, setiform, yellowish scales, which are condensed into a small patch between 
the eyes, an interrupted transverse median fascia on the prothorax, and a common basal, 
median, and apical fascia on the elytra (leaving two almost bare transverse spaces on 
the disc). Rostrum (g) moderately stout, flattened above, angularly dilated beneath, 
squamose and rugosely punctate to the tip; (?) more slender, flattened-cylindrical, bare, 
closely striate-punctate. Prothorax as long as broad, strongly constricted beyond the 
middle, the apical portion much narrower than the basal portion ; densely, finely, rugu- 
losely punctate, and with an indication of a smooth raised median line in 3. Elytra 
moderately long, closely, rather coarsely punctate-striate, the interstices very narrow and 
rugulose. First ventral segment slightly depressed in the middle at the apex in 2. 
Femora unarmed. 
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