430 PERCY SLADEN TRUST EXPEDITION 
Length (exclud. head) 13—2 mm. ($2). 
Loc. Seychelles: Silhouette, Mahé, Praslin. 
Nine specimens. Mahé, from the Mare aux Cochons district (1000—2000 feet), and 
from between leaf-bases of a growing Stevensonia-palm near Morne Blanc. Silhouette, 
from the forest above Mare aux Cochons, including some specimens taken from between 
leaf-bases of a growing Stevensonia at 2000 feet. Praslin, from the Coco-de-mer forest in 
the Vallée de Mai. In this insect the coarse elytral vestiture, which is dense at the base 
and sublinearly arranged, is interrupted by two more or less distinct bare transverse 
fascize, the ground-colour of the subapical fascia being usually black. The curled setz on 
the prothorax are shorter than in P. stevensonie, and do not extend over the head as in 
that insect. The coarse, curled scales on the legs give a dilated appearance to the tibize. 
The females have an indication of a smooth median ridge on the prothorax. 
42. Phanicobates stevenson, n. sp. 
Moderately elongate, subopaque ; piceous or reddish brown, the antenne and tarsi, 
and sometimes the femora and tibize also, ferruginous or obscure ferruginous, the elytra 
sometimes with an oblong black patch at the sides; clothed, the legs included, with 
scattered, coarse, curled, setiform, decumbent, yellowish scales (those on the elytra 
elongate-oval in shape), which are condensed into a small patch between the eyes, an 
apical and a median fascia on the prothorax (the curled scales of the apical fascia pro- 
jecting forwards over the head), and several interrupted lines on the elytra. Rostrum (¢) 
a little shorter than the prothorax, moderately stout, flattened above and angularly 
dilated beneath, squamose and rugosely punctate to the tip; (?) longer and more slender, 
flattened-cylindrical, bare, closely striate-punctate ; the antennz inserted towards the tip 
in g, and at about the middle in ?. Prothorax strongly constricted beyond the middle, 
the basal portion in fully-developed males arcuately dilated and wider than the elytra, 
narrower in smaller males and in ?; densely, finely punctate, the disc sometimes with an 
indication of a smooth median line. Elytra moderately long, very gradually narrowing 
from near the base in ¢, subparallel in their basal half in 2; rather coarsely, closely 
punctate-striate, the interstices very narrow and rugulose. Beneath closely, moderately 
coarsely punctate, smoother in @; ventral segment 1 with a deep, transverse, foveiform 
depression at the apex in ¢ and a smaller fovea in ?. Legs rather stout, coarsely setose ; 
femora unarmed ; tarsal joints 2 and 3 moderately broad. 
Length (exclud. head) 14—22 mm. (69). 
Loc. Seychelles: Silhouette, Mahé. 
Silhouette: from near Mont Pot-a-eau, ca. 1500 feet ; from the forests above Mare 
aux Cochons, including some specimens from decayed heads of felled Verschaffeltia-palms 
just above the plateau, and some taken from between leaf-bases of a growing Stevensonia 
at about 2000 feet. Mahé: from the high forests of Morne Blane and Pilot, from the 
forests above Cascade Estate (including some specimens taken from between leaf-bases of 
a growing Stevensonia at about 1000 feet), and from the Mare aux Cochons district. 
Thirty-five examples, varying greatly in size and in the development of the prothorax 
