A480 PERCY SLADEN TRUST EXPEDITION 
Sect. Cossonides. 
HIMATINUM. 
Himatium Wollaston, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1878, p. 461 [nec Imatium, Clark, 
1860 (emend. Himatiwm, 1871), Halticidee]. 
Himatinum Cockerell, Ent. News, xvii. p. 243 (1906). 
The few described species of this genus are from India, 8. Africa, and North and 
Central America. The three Seychelles forms are related to the one known from South 
Africa. It is perhaps convenient to adopt Cockerell’s emendation of Wollaston’s name*; 
Clark, however, wrote Imatiwm. 
109. Himatinum confluum, n. sp. 
Elongate, depressed, moderately shining ; nigro-piceous, piceous, or ferruginous, clothed 
with short, stiff, decumbent, yellowish pubescence, the hairs on the elytra uniseriately 
arranged down each interstice. Rostrum (¢) stout, barely half the length of the prothorax, 
coarsely, rugosely punctured at the base and along the sides, the punctures longitudmally 
confluent, the apical portion smooth along the middle from the transverse inter-antennal 
fovea to the tip, (?) narrower and slightly longer. Prothorax oblongo-conic, longer than 
broad, constricted towards the apex, rounded at the sides posteriorly ; coarsely, densely 
punctate, the punctures becoming longitudinally confluent towards the outer margin. 
Elytra elongate, subparallel in their basal half, in fully-developed males barely as wide as 
the prothorax ; narrowly punctato-sulcate, the interstices flat, rugose, and irregularly 
uniseriate-punctate. Beneath coarsely, densely punctate; ventral segments 1 and 2 
broadly flattened down the middle, 1 depressed in the centre behind in both sexes. 
Femora and tibiz stout; intermediate and posterior tibiee subangularly dilated on the 
inner side before the middle in g, simply triangular in 9. 
Length 24—3 mm. (29). 
Loc. Seychelles: Mahé. 
Over 70 specimens, almost all from the forest near Morne Blanc (some of them most 
probably from under bark of a dead “ Bois montagne” tree, Campnosperma seychellarum 
March.) : one was found in the forest above Cascade Estate. The specimens vary in size ~ 
and colour. The more shining surface, the sparser pubescence, the coarsely sculptured 
prothorax, and the larger size and more robust build, readily distinguish H. conflwwm from 
the other Seychelles members of the genus. Its smaller size, less rugose, shining upper 
surface, and shorter rostrum (especially in ?), separate H. confluwm from the S. African 
H. variolosum, Woll., and the less convex body from the Indian H. pubescens, Woll. 
110. Himatinum rugipenne, n. sp. 
Elongate, depressed, feebly shining, the elytra dull; obscure ferruginous or ferruginous, 
thickly clothed with short, stiff, decumbent, ochreous pubescence, the hairs on the elytra 
uniseriately arranged down each interstice. Rostrum (¢) short, broad, coarsely, rugosely 
* The substitution of Wollastoniella for Wollastonia, Horn (nec Heer), is not required, the latter name 
being a synonym of Zomolips, Woll. 
