466 PERCY SLADEN TRUST EXPEDITION 
a. Upper surface opaque, very densely punctate ; rostrum rather stout 
Woe sen a at Be ee calaginosa. 
b°. Upper surface subopaque, more sparsely punctate; rostrum more 
slender in ¢ ae Bee ah ae conicicephala. 
f°. Upper surface pubescent at apex only, shining. 
e’. Prothorax closely punctate... ie uh a8: ... nemoralis. 
jf’. Prothorax sparsely punctate... se AS Lae -.- poltia. 
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g. Upper surface glabrous or subglabrous. 
g'. Upper surface subopaque, sericeous; rostrum rather stout in g 
sericata. 
ht. Upper surface shining. 
ce. Body more coarsely punctate above: species larger...  nitidula. 
d’. Body finely punctate above: species small ... ... silvicola. 
b. Head with the exposed anterior portion shorter, conical, very feebly constricted 
behind the eyes, the latter depressed ; prothorax less elongate ; third tarsal 
joint narrow: species minute ... ie ae S86 ... dumetorum. 
88. Stenotrupis lodorceicola, n. sp. 
Very elongate, narrow, somewhat fusiform, feebly shining ; black or pitchy-black, the 
antennee and tarsi ferruginous, the rostrum, femora, and tibiz rufo-piceous. Head and 
base of rostrum densely and somewhat rugosely, the rest of the latter finely, punctate, the 
apical portion of the rostrum a little smoother in ?; head in ¢ elongated in front of the 
deep basal constriction and with the post-ocular portion nearly twice the length of the eyes, 
in ? much sborter, and with the post-ocular portion less than the length of the eyes, the 
latter feebly convex; rostrum ($2) elongate, curved, thickened at the base, and slightly 
widened at the apex, in g stout, in $ more slender; antennze moderately long, the club 
rather small, the joints of the funiculus somewhat loosely articulated. Prothorax 
elongate, obliquely narrowing from about the middle to the deep subapical constriction ; 
closely punctate. Elytra elongate, as wide as the prothorax, gradually narrowing from 
the base, the apices somewhat separately rounded and very narrowly explanate ; closely 
punctate-striate, the interstices flat, faintly punctulate, and transversely rugulose. 
Beneath closely, coarsely punctate; metasternum feebly sulcate posteriorly ; ventral 
seoments 1 and 2 slightly depressed down the middle, and 5 transversely impressed, in 
§. Tibiz mucronate at the inner apical angle. Third tarsal joint bilobed. 
Length 32—4% mm. (92). 
Loc. Seychelles: Praslin. 
Twenty-two specimens, found in the leaf-bases of a growing g Coco-de-mer (Lodozcea 
seychellarum), in the Vallée de Mai, Noy. 28th, 1908. In this insect the rostrum is 
elongate in both sexes (the exposed portion of the head together with the rostrum being 
about as long as the prothorax), and the head is much longer in the male than in the 
female. S. lodoiceicola approaches S. parallela and S. crassipes. The tibize are mucronate 
at the inner apical angle in both sexes, as in the Malayan S. crassifrons, Woll. 
