CHAMPION—COLEOPTERA ; CURCULIONIDA 463 
closely, rather coarsely punctate. Scutellum smooth. Elytra moderately long, very 
gradually narrowing from the base; closely punctato-sulcate, the mterstices flat. Beneath 
closely, rather coarsely punctate; metasternum obsoletely canaliculate; ventral segment 1 
hollowed down the middle in @. 
Length 24—22 mm. (¢9). 
Loc. Seychelles: Praslin. 
Three males and one female, taken from the leaf-bases of a growing s Coco-de-mer, 
in the Vallée de Mai, Nov. 28, 1908. 
STENOPENTARTHRUM, nh. gen. 
Rostrum cylindrical, rather stout, the antennz (¢) inserted towards the base; head 
small, narrow, feebly constricted at a short distance behind the eyes, the latter small and 
depressed ; antennz stout, with a five-jointed funiculus and a rather large abrupt club, 
the scape reaching considerably beyond the eyes; prothorax oval, strongly constricted 
before the apex ; scutellum small; elytra subeylindrical ; anterior coxze narrowly separated ; 
legs short ; tibize feebly unguiculate ; tarsi stout, the claw-joint included, jomt 3 bilobed, 
the claws small; body elongate, linear, somewhat depressed, delicately sculptured, glabrous. 
Type, S. pandane. 
The very small Pentarthrid from which the above characters are taken is not unlike 
Stenotrupis gracilis (a species doubtfully included in Stenotrupis on account of its small, 
non-elongated, conical head); but differs from it in having the rostrum and antennze 
shorter and stouter, the tarsi widened and with a thicker claw-joint, and the prothorax 
abruptly constricted before the apex. From Microtrupis the present genus may be 
separated by the structure of the tarsi, the longer head, and the abruptly constricted 
prothorax. Compared with the small, elongate species of Pentarthrum, such as P. angus- 
tissimum, Woll., from Japan, the short limbs, delicate sculpture, relatively larger antennal 
club, stouter claw-joint to the tarsi, &c., sufficiently distinguish Stenopentarthrum. 
S. pandane is doubtless attached to Pandanus. 
86. Stenopentarthrum pandane, n. sp. 
g. Shining, nigro-piceous, the antenne (the club excepted) and tarsi ferruginous. 
Rostrum feebly curved, nearly twice the length of the exposed anterior portion of the 
head, sparsely punctate; head finely punctate; antennse with joints 83—5 of the funiculus — 
strongly transverse. Prothorax longer than broad, oval, much narrowed anteriorly, and 
abruptly constricted before the apex; closely, finely punctate. Elytra elongate, parallel, 
of the same width as the prothorax; very finely punctate-striate, the interstices flat. 
Beneath finely punctate; ventral segments 1 and 2 sulcate down the middle, 5 shallowly 
foveate. 
Length 13—1#4 mm. 
Loc. Seychelles: Silhouette, Mahé. 
Two specimens, both from the high forest, the one from Silhouette indicated as 
having been taken from between the leaf-bases of a growing Pandanus Hornet. 
