CHAMPION—COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDA 473 
slightly hollowed down the middle, and 5 transversely excavate, in ¢. Third tarsal joint 
very little wider than the second. 
Length 2—24 mm. ($9). 
Loc. Seychelles: Silhouette. 
Seventeen specimens, from the Mare aux Cochons plateau or the forest near by, 
including two from decayed heads of felled Verschaffeltva-palms. Closely related to 
S. polita, differing from it in the more closely punctured head and prothorax, the somewhat 
attenuate elytra, which are less distinctly pubescent at the apex, and the obsoletely cana- 
liculate metasternum. The more elongate, less coarsely punctured prothorax, the straighter 
rostrum, and the narrower third tarsal joint, distinguish S. nemoralis from S. silvicola. 
99. Stenotrupis polita, n. sp. ; 
Very elongate, depressed, filiform, shining ; nigro-piceous (ferruginous or brown when 
not fully coloured), the humeri, rostrum, and legs brown or rufescent, the antennee and 
tarsi rufo-testaceous ; the elytra pilose at the apex. Head rather sparsely, the rostrum 
very finely, punctate, the latter smoother in ?; rostrum thickened at the tip, feebly 
curved, long, and slender, in the ¢ very slender and as long as the prothorax; head 
oblongo-conic, constricted far behind the eyes, the latter depressed; antennze slender, the 
club abrupt. Prothorax elongate, subconical, rounded at the sides posteriorly, the apical 
collar sharply defined ; sparsely, finely punctate, except along a narrow smooth space 
down the middle. Elytra elongate, parallel to near the tip; closely, finely punctate- 
striate, the interstices flat and rugulose. Beneath closely, finely punctate; metasternum 
suleate, the lateral portions, and those of the first ventral segment also, depressed, 
opaque, and rugulose; ventral segments 1 and 2 suleate, and 5 transversely excavate, 
in g. ‘Third tarsal jot narrow, feebly lobed. 
Length 2—22 mm. (9). 
Loc. Seychelles: Silhouette, Mahé. 
Seventeen specimens, found in Silhouette in the forest above Mare aux Cochons, and 
in Mahé in that above Cascade. The chief characters of this species are: the shining, 
depressed body, the long, slender rostrum (especially in ¢), the sparsely punctured head 
and prothorax, the elongate prothorax, and the long parallel-sided elytra, with the apex 
conspicuously pubescent. The examples before me vary in size, one female from Mahé 
being much smaller than the rest. The Malayan S. eailis, Pasc. (2, not $*), is an allied 
form, with much coarser sculpture. 
100. Stenotrupis sericata, n. sp. 
Very elongate, narrow, depressed, subfusiform, subopaque, alutaceous, the rostrum 
shining ; piceous, the tarsi and the base of the antenne ferruginous. Head and base of 
rostrum densely, the rest of the latter more finely, punctate, the outer portion of the 
rostrum smoother in ?; head in $ moderately prolonged in front of the basal constriction, 
a little shorter in ?, the post-ocular portion about as long as the small depressed eyes, the 
inter-ocular fovea very small; rostrum curved, subcylindrical, together with the head as 
* The insect described as the male belongs to a different genus, Coptus, Woll. 
