CHAMPION—COLEOPTERA ; CURCULIONIDA A437 
PHG@NICOGENUS, h. gen. 
Rostrum deflexed, short, broad, not longer than wide, a little narrowed towards the 
tip, the scrobes obliquely descending to beneath the small eyes, the antennz inserted near 
the apex ; antennze slender, the scape and joint 1 of the funiculus strongly clavate at the 
tip, joints 3—7 of the funiculus short, equal, 2 a little longer, the club acuminate-ovate, 
annulate, nearly as long as the scape ; head deeply inserted into the prothorax ; prothorax 
and elytra truncate at the base, the prothorax cucullate at the apex above and with the 
cephalic cavity beneath extending backwards to very near the anterior cox; scutellum 
not visible; anterior and intermediate coxee narrowly separated ; metasternum barely as 
long as first ventral segment, the narrow episterna exposed ; legs short, femora unarmed, 
tibiee without apical hook, tarsi with joints 2 and 3 very broad, the claws minute and 
divergent ; body oblong-ovate, variegated with patches of adpressed scales. 

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Type, P. inermis. 
The minute insect forming the type of this genus is, so far as at present known, 
peculiar to the Island of Praslin. The stout, broad, subparallel-sided rostrum, the oblong- 
ovate body, the variegate upper surface, and the unarmed apices of the tibize, distinguish 
it at once from all the other members of the group. The species is doubtless apterous. 
No sexual characters are apparent in the three specimens before me. 
52. Pheenicogenus inermis, n. sp. (Pl. 28, figs. 29, 29 a.) 
Rather convex, shining (when denuded), ferruginous or obscure ferruginous, the 
antennee rufo-testaceous ; variegated, the rostrum included, with dense, irregular, subcon- 
fluent patches of narrow, adpressed, minute, flavo-cinereous scales, which become longer 
and curled on the anterior portion of the prothorax. Rostrum bare at the tip, and, like 
the head, densely punctate. Prothorax as broad as long, rounded at the sides, truncate at 
the base, much narrowed anteriorly ; densely, finely punctate. Elytra connate, a little 
wider than the prothorax, moderately long, subparallel at the base, somewhat produced at 
the tip, the humeri obtuse; coarsely punctate-striate, the interstices rugulose. Beneath 
closely, somewhat coarsely punctate. 
Length (exclud. head) 14, 1,9 mm. 
Loc. Seychelles: Praslin. 
Three specimens, found on Noy. 28th and 29th, 1908, on the Cotes d’Or Estate, in 
the Coco-de-mer forest in the Vallée de Mai. 
Group Anthonomina. 
ENDOPSIS, n. gen. 
Rostrum curved, moderately stout, larger than the head and prothorax, the antennze 
inserted beyond or at the middle, the scrobes deep and obliquely descending to beneath 
the eyes; head large, inserted into the prothorax to near the eyes, the latter rounded, 
prominent, and separated by less than the width of the rostrum; antenne with an 
elongate-ovate, 3-jointed, pubescent club and a 6-jointed funiculus, jot 1 of latter stout, 
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