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in the male, one specimen of this sex having the basal portion arcuately dilated and wider 
than the elytra. Amongst the species with a strongly constricted prothorax and unarmed 
femora P. stevensonie may be known by the very coarse vestiture of the upper surface 
and legs, the curled projecting setiform scales along the anterior margin of the prothorax, 
and the sublineate, uninterrupted arrangement of the elongate-oval scales on the elytra. 
Small males might easily be mistaken for P. stricticollis, in which the lines of scales on 
the elytra are interrupted by two bare transverse fascize. 
43. Phenicobates hispidulus, n. sp. (Pl. 28, figs. 25, 25a, ¢.) 
Moderately elongate, subopaque ; ferruginous, the head and prothorax, the antennal 
club, the base of the rostrum, the suture and sides of the elytra, the femora, tibize, and under 
surface more or less suffused with piceous or black; sparsely clothed with minute adpressed 
whitish scales intermixed with curled, suberect, fine, blunt setz, the setz on the elytra 
uniseriately arranged down each interstice and becoming very long towards the apex, the 
legs also setose. Rostrum subcylindrical, a little shorter than the prothorax, rugulosely 
punctate and opaque to near the tip in ¢, more shining and striate in 9, the antennze 
inserted at (2) or slightly beyond (¢) the middle. Prothorax about as long as broad, 
rounded at the sides, narrowed and feebly constricted anteriorly; densely, finely, 
rugulosely punctate. Elytra connate, a little wider than the prothorax, rather convex, 
rounded at the sides, gradually widened to about the middle; rather coarsely punctate- 
striate, the interstices narrow and rugose. Beneath shining, coarsely, closely punctate ; 
ventral segment 1 feebly depressed down the middle in g. Femora each with a small 
tooth. Wings wanting. 
Length (exclud. head) 14—2 mm. (f9). 
Loc. Seychelles: Silhouette, Mahé. 
Silhouette, from high forest above Mare aux Cochons. Mahé, from forests of Morne 
Blane and Pilot, from high forest between Trois Fréres and Morne Seychellois (1500— 
2000 feet), and from the forests above Cascade Estate. 
Twelve examples. Larger and more robust than P. duplovestitus, the elytra rounded 
at the sides, the setze less erect on the prothorax and becoming (as in P. albosetosus) very 
long on the apical portion of the elytra, the minute intermixed adpressed scales fewer in 
number on the elytral surface, the seriate punctures on the latter coarser. In one of the 
Silhouette examples the elytral setze are very long throughout. The longer and more 
abundant setosity of the upper surface and the less elongate shape separate P. hispidulus 
from P. cuspidatus. 
44. Phenicobates cuspidatus, n. sp. (Pl. 28, fig. 26, 9.) 
Elongate, narrow, somewhat depressed, more or less widened posteriorly, subopaque ; 
ferruginous or brownish-ferruginous, with the head, base of the rostrum, antennal club, 
flanks of the prothorax, sides of the elytra, femora, and under surface piceous or black, 
sometimes almost wholly black above, or entirely ferruginous; very sparsely clothed with 
minute, narrow, setiform, adpressed, pale yellowish scales, those on the elytra uniseriately 
arranged down each interstice and becoming much longer and erect towards the apex. 
