CHAMPION—COLEOPTERA ; CURCULIONIDA A57 
Two males, from the forest of Morne Blanc. Probably attached to some kind of 
palm, though no record of this is attached to the specimens. 
Group Cossonina. 
The Cossonina, as in many oceanic islands, are abundantly represented in the 
Seychelles. The collection before me contains 49 species, 29 of which belong to the 
Pentarthrides, some of them being very minute, and numerous new genera, if the 
characters used by Wollaston in his classification are to be considered of sufficient value, 
are required for their reception. The 18 Cossonides, on the contrary, with two exceptions, 
belong to known generic types, and are therefore much less specialized in the islands, some 
of them, in fact, are introductions. The two Dryophthborides call for no special comment. 
Many of the Pentarthrides are noted as having been found in the leaf-bases of endemic 
palms, or of screw-pine, hence it is not surprising to find many new forms amongst them. 
One species of Stenotrupis (= Proéces rufipes Fairm.), from the island of La Digue, is not 
represented in Mr Scott’s collection, this making 50 in all from the Seychelles group. 
Sect. Dryophthorides. 
DRYOPHTHORUS. 
Dryophthorus Schénherr, Curc. Disp. Meth., p. 332 (1826); Wollaston, Trans. Ent. 
Soe. Lond., 1873, p. 442. 
This genus is referred by most writers to the Cossonina, but its proper place is 
probably in the Calandrinz, near the Sipalides. 
A cosmopolitan genus, with many endemic species in the Hawaiian Is., possibly 
introduced in Europe. 
77. Dryophthorus lymeaylon. 
Curculio lymexylon Fabr., Ent. Syst., i. 2, p. 420 (1792). 
Curculio corticalis Payk., Mon. Cure., p. 41 (1792). 
Dryophthorus corticalis Say, Descr. N.Am. Cure., p. 24 (1831); Complete Writings, i. 
p. 292. 
Dryophthorus assimilis Gahan, Monogr. Christmas Is., p. 116 (1900). 
Loc. Seychelles: Mahé. 
A common insect in the high forest of Morne Blane, Trois Fréres, and Cascade 
Estate. I can see no difference between specimens from Europe, N. America, Christmas 
Island, and Mahé, when clean examples are compared. They all have a well-defined 
subapical carina to the elytra formed by the united, more or less costate, fifth and 
seventh interstices. The elytra, themselves, vary in length, and in some examples the 
alternate interstices towards the apex are distinctly more raised than the rest. 
78. Dryophthorus ecarinatus, n. sp. 
Elongate, subfusiform, opaque, when fresh plumbeo-pruinose ; nigro-piceous or black, 
the antennz (the club excepted) and tarsi ferruginous, the femora and tibiz sometimes 
