CHAMPION—COLEOPTERA ; CURCULIONIDA 469 
becoming subparallel-sided immediately before the abrupt basal constriction, the post- 
ocular portion twice or thrice the length of the eyes, the latter depressed ; antennze 
rather stout, joints 3—5 of the funiculus transverse, the club short-ovate, moderately 
large. Prothorax about twice as long as broad, gradually narrowing forwards to the 
subapical constriction, feebly rounded at the sides posteriorly; rather closely punctate, 
except along a narrow space down the middle. Elytra very elongate, scarcely so wide as 
the prothorax in ¢, parallel to near the apex, and there bluntly rounded and narrowly 
explanate ; closely punctate-striate, the striz shallow, the interstices flat and faintly trans- 
versely rugulose. Beneath very shining, sparsely, minutely punctate ; the head transversely 
rugose, the lateral portions of the metasternum and first two ventral segments depressed 
and densely alutaceous, the metasternum sharply canaliculate, the fifth segment densely 
punctured ; the second segment obsoletely sulcate, and the fifth broadly depressed and 
densely rugose, in $. Tibize distinctly mucronate at the inner apical angle, the anterior 
pair feebly sinuate and ciliate within. ‘Tarsi short, stout, joint 3 bilobed. 
Length 3—42 mm. (¢9). 
Loc. Seychelles: Mahé, Silhouette, Praslin. 
Fifty specimens, varying greatly in size and in the development of the rostrum in 
the male. Apparently one of the commoner Cossonids of the Seychelles. Silhouette, 
found near Mont Pot-a-eau, ca. 1500 feet, and in the forests above Mare aux Cochons, 
including one specimen taken from the decayed head of a felled Verschaffeltia-palm. 
Mahé, from the high forest behind Trois Fréres (1500—2000 feet), the Mare aux Cochons 
district (1000—2000 feet), and the forest above Cascade Estate. Praslin, from the 
Coco-de-mer forest in the Vallée de Mai, Cotes d’Or Estate. The present species is very 
like the New Zealand S. (Pentarthrum) wollastonana, Sharp, but has a much longer 
prothorax, a more coarsely punctured head, a smaller antennal club, and a broader third 
tarsal joint. From the Malayan S. crassifrons, Woll., the type of the genus, S. parallela, 
may be known by its more elongate prothorax, the stouter antennz, with less acuminate 
club, and the more parallel elytra. 
93. Stenotrupis filum, n. sp. 
g. Very elongate, narrow, subcylindrical, rather convex, shining; black, the antennze 
and tarsi ferruginous, the femora and tibize piceous. Head and rostrum closely punctate, 
together about as long as the prothorax, the rostrum stout, curved, widened behind the 
middle and at the apex, the head oblong, faintly sulcate between the rather small eyes, 
the space between the latter and the basal constriction very little longer than the 
eyes; antenne rather stout, the club short-ovate, moderately large. Prothorax very 
elongate, gradually narrowing from about the basal third to the subapical constriction ; 
closely punctate, except along a narrow space down the middle. Elytra elongate, at the 
base as wide as the prothorax, very gradually narrowing to the conjointly rounded 
apices ; shallowly punctate-striate, the interstices flat and transversely rugulose. Beneath 
closely, finely punctate, the metasternum depressed laterally; ventral segments un- 
impressed, 5 densely punctate, convex. ‘Tibiee mucronate at the inner apical angle. 
Third tarsal joint bilobed. 
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