482 PERCY SLADEN TRUST EXPEDITION 
rugosely punctate, the depressions filled with an earthy-looking incrustation, which 
hides the minute, yellowish, hair-like scales arising from the punctures. Rostrum very 
stout, a little longer than the exposed portion of the head, obsoletely canaliculate at 
the base; eyes large and prominent ; antennze stout, joints 2—7 of the funiculus strongly 
transverse, the club short-ovate. Prothorax longer than broad, narrowed anteriorly, 
abruptly constricted before the apex, subtruncate at the base, obsoletely carinate down 
the middle. Elytra elongate, much wider than the prothorax, subparallel in their basal 
half, produced at the apex, the humeri rounded; shallowly punctato-suleate, the densely 
rugose interstices appearing slightly raised. Beneath moderately shining, closely punctate; 
metasternum suleate down the middle posteriorly ; ventral segment 1 deeply excavate, 
5 densely punctate and clothed with moderately long hairs. Legs stout; intermediate 
and posterior tibize bimucronate at the inner apical angle. 
Length 35 mm. 
Loc. Seychelles: Mahé. 
One specimen, from the Mare aux Cochons district, captured in January or 
February, 1909. Smaller and much less robust than M. nigritus, Woll., the conspicuous 
median sulcus of the rostrum only just indicated, the prothorax and elytra subtruncate 
at the base, the seriate punctures on the latter not so coarse, the intermediate and 
posterior tibize bimucronate at the tip. Wollaston’s type is probably of the same sex, 
male. 
PHLG@OPHAGOSOMA. 
Phleophagosoma Wollaston, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 18738, pp. 28, 465, 545. 
Two species were originally included in this genus, both from Japan, and P. minutum 
given as the type, Wollaston subsequently adding, under a subgenus Amorphorhynchus, 
many others from the Malayan Is., Ceylon, and New Zealand. Two forms from the 
Seychelles are related to the latter. P. dubiwm, Gahan, from Christmas Island and 
the Seychelles, is here placed under a new generic name, Khyncolosoma. 
113. Phle@ophagosoma comceicolle, n. sp. 
Elongate, fusiform, feebly convex, shining; nigro-piceous, the legs and antennz 
obscure ferruginous. Rostrum stout, curved, convex, almost parallel-sided (the apical 
portion, if anything, narrower than the basal portion), considerably longer than the 
width of the head with the eyes, more finely punctured than the inter-ocular portion 
of the head; eyes depressed, rather large; head narrow, parallel-sided for a short 
distance behind the eyes, and then abruptly constricted ; antennez with joints 2—7 of 
the funiculus closely articulated, transverse, the club abrupt, ovate. Prothorax much 
longer than broad, conical, constricted immediately before the apex and at the sides 
before the base; rather sparsely punctate, except along a narrow smooth median space. . 
Scutellum very small. Elytra moderately elongate, a little wider than the prothorax, 
gradually narrowing from the base, conjointly rounded at the apex; crenate-striate, 
the interstices faintly uniseriate-punctate. Beneath coarsely, closely, the ventral segments 
