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more sparsely, punctate; metasternum sulcate posteriorly. Tibize mucronate at the 
inner apical angle, the anterior pair sinuate, and also ciliate towards the apex, within. 
Length 3 mm. (? ?). 
Loc. Seychelles: Silhouette. 
One specimen, from the forest near Mont Pot-a-eau, ca. 1500 feet, VIII. 1908. 
Near P. angustulum Woll., from Batchian, differing from that insect in the more coarsely 
punctured rostrum, the depressed eyes, and the more sparsely punctured conical prothorax. 
The rostrum has the apical portion scarcely so wide as the basal portion, the contrary 
being the case in P. aldabranum. The Hawaiian P. tenue has a similarly shaped 
prothorax, but it is a larger and more robust insect, with a longer rostrum and prominent 
eyes. 
114. Phleophayosoma aldabranum, n. sp. 
Elongate, fusiform, shining, piceous. Rostrum curved, stout, convex, the apical 
portion widened and much longer than parallel-sided basal portion, closely punctate ; 
head convex, similarly punctured, with a small fovea between the prominent eyes, and 
constricted at a short distance behind them. Prothorax longer than broad, somewhat 
oval, the subapical constriction sharply defined laterally, shallow on the disc; coarsely, 
closely punctate. Scutellum minute. Elytra much wider than the prothorax, elongate- 
subtriangular, the apices subconjointly rounded ; coarsely punctate-striate, the interstices 
transversely rugulose and closely uniseriate-punctate. Beneath coarsely, the prosternum 
more rugosely, punctate ; metasternum sulcate along the posterior half, the first ventral 
segment also hollowed down the middle. Anterior coxe distant. Tibiz mucronate 
at the inner apical angle, the anterior pair strongly sinuate within. . 
Length 44 mm. (8). 
Loc. Aldabra: Takamaka, 1908 (Fryer). 
One specimen. Very near the Malayan P. proximum and P. puncticolle, Woll., 
differing from both of them in having the rostrum less densely punctate, the prothorax 
more feebly constricted before the apex (this being especially noticeable on the disc), 
and more coarsely and not so closely punctate; the elytra are narrowed from the base, 
as in P. puncticolle and not parallel as in P. prozimum. These three species will 
doubtless have to be removed from Phlaophagosoma and its subgenus Amorphorhynchus, 
and included under Notiosomus or Oxydema, Woll., which have a similarly formed 
rostrum. 
OxXYDEMA. 
Oxydema Wollaston, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1873, pp. 487, 488, 574. 
The five described species of this genus are from the Malayan Islands and Ceylon. 
The Ceylon insect has been found on the Cargados Islands, between the Mascarenes 
and the Seychelles. 
115. Oxydema fusiforme. 
Oxydema fusifornus Woll., loc. cit., p. 632. 
Loc. Cargados Carajos Islands. Ceylon. 
One example (¢), found on Aug. 28th, 1905, on Establishment Island. This insect 
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