CHAMPION—COLEOPTERA ; CURCULIONIDA A79 
very sparsely, the sides of the metasternum closely, punctate; metasternum canaliculate 
down the apical half; ventral segments unimpressed in both sexes. 
Length 14—14 mm. ($9). 
Loc. Seychelles: Mahé, Silhouette. 
Eight specimens, six of which were found in the Mare aux Cochons district of Mahé, 
while one was found on Cascade Estate (Mahé), and one at the Mare aux Cochons of 
Silhouette. 
MIcROHIMATIUM, n. gen. 
Rostrum feebly curved, moderately stout, parallel-sided, convex above, as long as the 
prothorax in ?, shorter and a little thicker in 3, the antenne inserted at about the middle, 
the serobes oblique, inferiorly placed, descending to the eyes beneath; eyes lateral, not 
prominent ; head small; antennze with a 5-jointed funiculus, joint 1 stout, 2—5 small, 
short, the club small, ovate, annulate, the scape longer in ? than in 3; prothorax oval ; 
scutellum small; elytra oblong ; coxze small, widely separated; metasternum long, unim- 
pressed, the narrow episterna almost covered by the elytra; ventral segments free, 3 and 
4 extremely short, the first suture curved, the others straight; legs short : tibize rounded 
and unarmed at the outer apical angle, and with a very minute uncus arising from the 
apical margin near the inner angle; tarsi with joints 1 and 2 short, 3 bilobed, pilose 
beneath, the claws long; body moderately elongate, depressed, rugulose, opaque, finely 
pubescent, winged: species minute. 
Type, MW. pubescens. 
The type of this genus is a minute insect not very much larger than the European 
Alaocyba carinulata, a species placed by Wollaston in Cossonina, but rejected from that 
group by recent writers. It is very different from any of the “ Pentarthrides” described 
by that author. The elytral vestiture is suggestive of that of the genus Himatium, Woll. 
The insect was found in the leaf-bases of a growing ¢ Coco-de-mer palm, Lodoicea 
seychellarum. 
108. Microhimatium pubescens, n. sp. (Pl. 24, figs. 45 ¢, 45a; antenna.) 
Moderately elongate, rather broad, depressed ; reddish-brown, the prothorax darker, 
the antenne and legs ferruginous; above and beneath opaque, densely rugulose, clothed with 
rather long, fine, adpressed, yellowish pubescence. Rostrum rugulose to the tip, consider- 
ably longer in $ than in g. Prothorax about as long as broad, rounded at the sides, 
gradually narrowed anteriorly, closely, mimutely punctate. Elytra a little wider than, 
and scarcely twice the length of, the prothorax, subparallel at the base, conjointly rounded 
at the apex ; shallowly, minutely striato-punctate, the interstices flat. Beneath minutely 
punctate. 
Length 1—1 4 mm. (f9). 
Loc. Seychelles: Praslin. 
Two females and one male, found in the Vallée de Mai, Nov. 28th, 1908, in the 
leaf-bases of a growing g Lodoicea-palm. 
