468 PERCY SLADEN TRUST EXPEDITION 
Anterior cox separated by the width of one of them. Anterior tibis mucronate at the 
inner apical angle. Third tarsal joint moderately dilated. 
Length 24 mm. 
Loc. Seychelles: Silhouette. 
One male, found in forest at the Mare aux Cochons, Sept. 6th, 1908. This insect is 
more convex than most of its allies, and fusiform in shape; the head and prothorax are 
densely punctured; the elytra, as compared with the elongate prothorax, are com- 
paratively short, narrowed from the middle, and very finely punctate-striate ; and the 
inter-antennal portion of the rostrum is conspicuously widened. The elongate head 
brings the species into Stenotrupis. 
91. Stenotrupis crassypes, n. sp. 
¢. Very elongate, robust, filiform, moderately depressed, feebly shining, rufo-piceous. 
Head and rostrum together about as long as the prothorax, closely, rather coarsely punc- 
tate, the punctures becoming much finer on the apical portion of the rostrum, the latter 
stout, curved, much widened towards the apex; head greatly developed, oblong, the sides 
becoming parallel before the abrupt, deep, basal constriction, the post-ocular space about 
three times the length of the eyes, the inter-ocular fovea oblong, the eyes small and feebly 
convex ; antennze rather stout, the club moderately large. Prothorax elongate, gradually 
narrowed from about the middle to the subapical constriction ; densely, rather coarsely 
punctate, with an indication of a smooth median line. Scutellum transverse. Elytra 
very elongate, subparallel, sightly compressed at the sides before the middle, conjointly 
rounded at the apex ; closely, shallowly punctate-striate, the interstices not wider than 
the striz, faintly punctulate. Beneath densely, rather coarsely punctate, the head 
transversely rugose, the sides of the metasternum depressed and rugulosely punctured ; 
ventral segments slightly hollowed down the middle, 5 with a very large rounded fovea. 
Legs very stout; tibiz mucronate at the inner apical angle, the anterior pair sinuate 
and ciliate within; third tarsal joint strongly bilobed, the claws small. 
Length 6 mm. 
Loc. Seychelles: Mahé. 
One specimen, from the high forest of Morne Blane or Pilot. Larger, duller, 
more coarsely punctured, and much more robust than S. parallela, the legs very stout, 
the third tarsal joint strongly bilobed, the eyes a little more prominent, the head with a 
conspicuous oblong fovea. S. crassipes is of about the same size as large S. (Pentarthrum) 
prohaa, Sharp, from the Hawaiian Islands. 
92. Stenotrupis parallela, n. sp. 
Very elongate, narrow, filiform, depressed, shining; black, the antennze and tarsi, and 
sometimes the rostrum also, ferruginous or obscure ferruginous. Head and rostrum rather 
closely, conspicuously punctate, the latter a little smoother in ?;. rostrum curved, 
widened towards the apex, in ¢ moderately stout and barely two-thirds the length of 
the prothorax, in ? considerably longer and more slender; head oblong-oval, stout, 
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