CHAMPION—COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDA AT7 
quadrate, rounded at the sides posteriorly, constricted before the apex; finely punctate. 
Scutellum minute. Elytra very elongate, scarcely wider than the prothorax, gradually 
narrowing from about the basal fourth; finely punctate-striate, the interstices flat. 
Beneath finely, rather sparsely punctate; metasternum elongate, finely canaliculate 
posteriorly ; ventral segments 1 and 2 sulcate, and the metasternum broadly depressed 
down the middle, in g. Legs short, slender. 
Length 15—12 mm. (¢9). 
Loc. Seychelles: Silhouette, Mahé. 
Five specimens, found in Silhouette in the forest near Mare aux Cochons, and in 
Mahé at Cascade Estate and in the Mare aux Cochons district. A minute, linear, 
depressed form, with a small, short head, a subquadrate prothorax, and relatively very 
elongate elytra. : 
105. Microtrupis puncticeps, n. sp. 
Moderately elongate, linear, slightly depressed, shining, obscure ferruginous, glabrous. 
Rostrum curved, cylindrical, moderately stout, much shorter than the prothorax, the 
basal portion coarsely, the apical portion finely, punctate; head short, narrow, coarsely 
punctured between the eyes, and constricted immediately behind them, the eyes small 
and slightly prominent; antennze with a rather large abrupt club. Prothorax sub- 
quadrate, convex, about as long as broad, rounded at the sides posteriorly, and constricted 
immediately before the apex; closely, somewhat coarsely punctate. Scutellum minute. 
Elytra moderately long, subparallel to near the tip, finely punctate-striate. Beneath 
rather sparsely, finely punctate; metasternum obsoletely canaliculate posteriorly. 
Length 13 mm. (@). 
Loc. Seychelles: Silhouette. 
Two specimens, found in the forest at Mare aux Cochons. More robust and a little 
larger than M. longipennis, the rostrum (?) stouter, the elytra parallel-sided and relatively 
less elongate, the prothorax subquadrate and almost as coarsely punctured as in WM. 
piliyera. The ventral segments are unimpressed, and the examples described are therefore 
assumed to be females. 
106. Microtrupis piligera, n. sp. 
Moderately elongate, somewhat fusiform, feebly convex, shining, ferruginous, the 
eyes black; clothed with very fine, scattered, erect, pallid hairs. Rostrum cylindrical, 
curved, nearly as long as the prothorax, slender, very finely punctate, the antenns 
inserted just behind the middle; head short, small, closely punctate between the eyes, 
and constricted immediately behind them, the eyes small, prominent ; antennz slender, 
the club abrupt and rather large. Prothorax about as long as broad, the sides rounded 
and converging anteriorly to the faint subapical constriction; somewhat coarsely, closely 
punctate. Scutellum transverse, very small. Hlytra moderately long, subparallel in their 
basal half, a little produced at the apex; closely, subseriately punctate, the interstices flat 
and here and there transversely rugulose. 
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