488 PERCY SLADEN TRUST EXPEDITION 
121. Coptus latiusculus, n. sp. 
Moderately elongate, somewhat fusiform, slightly depressed, shiming; nigro-piceous, 
the elytra obscurely rufescent. Rostrum very stout, curved, convex, parallel-sided, not 
longer than the width of the head with the eyes, densely, rather finely punctate, the 
convex inter-ocular space similarly punctate; eyes large, prominent, the head constricted 
behind them ; antennze with joints 2—7 of the funiculus very closely articulated, strongly 
transverse, the club abrupt, large, somewhat globose. Prothorax oblong-oval, a little 
longer than broad, gradually narrowed forwards to the feeble subapical constriction, which 
is more deeply impressed laterally ; closely, moderately coarsely punctate. Scutellum very 
small. Elytra moderately long, very little wider than the prothorax, parallel at the base ; 
crenate-striate, the narrow interstices transversely rugulose and irregularly uniseriate- 
punctate. Beneath closely, rather finely punctate; metasternum narrowly sulcate. 
Anterior coxee separated by about the width of one of them. ‘Tibize unarmed at the 
inner apical angle. 
Length 25 mm. (? 2). 
Loc. Seychelles: Mahé. 
One specimen, probably , the first ventral segment being unimpressed. It was 
found on the Cascade Estate at 800—1000 feet. Near C. oculatus, Woll., from Sula, 
but broader and more depressed, the prothorax more finely punctured. 
PROKCES. 
Proéces Schénherr, Gen. Cure., iv. p. 1080 (1838) ; Lacordaire, Gen. Col., vii. p. 339. 
This genus was based upon two small Cossonids from Madagascar, and others have 
since been added from Tahiti and the Seychelles*. Two species are represented in the 
collection under examination. Proéces, type P. macer, Boh., was unknown to Wollaston. 
The Seychelles forms obtained by Mr Scott agree in the following characters :— 
‘Rostrum moderately long, curved, cylindrical, the antennze inserted behind the middle ; 
eyes rounded, large, prominent, the head sharply constricted immediately behind 
them; antennse with a seven-jomted funiculus, and an abrupt, annulate, ovate club; 
prothorax long, conical, basally dilated ; elytra elongate, depressed, parallel or subparallel ; 
anterior and intermediate coxee widely, the posterior coxze more narrowly, separated ; 
anterior cox large; metasternum flattened down the middle, narrowly sulcate; outer 
apical angle of the tibize produced into a long, curved hook, the inner angle acute; third 
tarsal joint simple.” 
The specimens of P. silvestris before me include both sexes. 
122. Proéces compressicollis, n. sp. 
Elongate, depressed, shining, ferruginous, the eyes black. Rostrum cylindrical, . 
slightly widened at the tip, slender, curved, as long as the prothorax, sparsely, minutely 
punctate, finely striate along the sides, the antennz inserted far behind the middle; head 
* P. rufipes, Fairm., as already stated, is a Stenotrupis. 
