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STENOSCELIS. 
Stenoscelis Wollaston, Journ. Ent., i. p. 141 (1861); Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1873, 
pp. 504, 9594. 
The described species of this genus are from 8. Africa, Japan, and St Helena, and one 
is now before me from Aldabra. They are doubtless carried about in logs or timber. 
125. Stenoscelis crassifrons. 
Stenoscelis crassifrons Woll., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1873, p. 651. 
Loc. Aldabra, 1908 (Fryer). S. Africa. 
A single specimen from Takamaka, Aldabra I., agrees with the unique type of 
S. crassifrons from the Cape of Good Hope, except that the head and rostrum are 
narrower (probably a sexual character) and less rugosely punctate, and the sides of the 
prothorax are more strongly sinuate. From S. hylastoides, from St Helena and 8. Africa, 
the present species may be separated by the definite, coarse, transverse, seriate punctures 
of the elytra (a character not definitely mentioned by Wollaston) and the setulose apical 
declivity. 
DENDROCTONOMORPHUS. 
Dendroctonomorphus Wollaston, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1873, pp. 502, 591. 
The two known members of this genus are from Ceylon and Mexico respectively, and 
a third from Malabar is mentioned (but not described) by Wollaston. The Ceylon insect, 
D. muricatus, is given as the type and an allied form is now added from the Seychelles, 
possibly not really endemic, as there is a specimen from Java in the British Museum that 
evidently belongs to the same species. 
126. Dendroctonomorphus muriceus, n. sp. 
Moderately elongate, convex, cylindrical, rather broad, shining, black, the tarsi and 
antennee obscure ferruginous. Head and rostrum closely, finely punctate; rostrum very 
broad, transverse, widened towards the base, obsoletely canaliculate, the junction with the 
head indicated by a faint transverse groove, which is sometimes shallowly foveate in the 
middle; eyes large, depressed ; antennze with a large, abrupt, rounded club. Prothorax 
transverse, gradually narrowing forwards, the sides rounded posteriorly and slightly 
compressed or sinuate at the middle; coarsely, closely punctate. Scutellum minute, 
depressed. Elytra cylindrical, moderately long, bluntly rounded at the apex; coarsely 
erenato-sulcate, the interstices not wider than the sulci, asperate and confusedly punctate, 
the asperities becoming more distinct on the apical half. Beneath closely punctate, the 
metasternum sulcate. Tarsi long and slender, the claws elongate. 
Length 34—3# mm. 
Loc. Seychelles: Mahé. Java. 
A long series. This species was found in dead wood: the majority of specimens are 
from near Morne Blanc (almost certainly from the dead trunk of a “ Bois montagne” tree), 
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