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No. IV.—' SEALATIK ' EHYNCHOTA. 



By Wm. Lucas Distant, F.E.S. 



{Communicated by J. Stanley Gardiner, M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S.) 



(Plate 4.) 



Eead IVtli December, 1908. 



The collection made by Mr. Gardiner in the Seychelles comprises 40 species, viz., 

 28 species of Heteroptera and 12 of Homoptera. Walker was the first to write on 

 the Heteroptera of these islands, and in 1872 * he described 3 species collected by 

 Dr. Perceval Wright, one of which has been found by Mr. Gardiner. 



In 1893 Bergroth and Renter worked out the collections made by M. Ch. Alluaud 

 and Pere Pliilibert so far as the Heteroptera was concerned, and were able to enumerate 

 37 species f. 



As regards the Heteroptera, the 28 species collected by Mr. Gardiner include 11 not 

 contained in the list published by Bergroth, while that writer was able to enumerate 

 21 species not found by Mr. Gardiner, and Walker described 2 contained in neither 

 list. The total Heteroptera of the Seychelles as now recorded therefore comprise 

 51 species. Of the Homoptera, beyond the 12 species here enumerated I know of no 

 other record. 



Beyond the distributional notes appended to the species it would have been well 

 if a more thorough comparison of the Heteroptera could have been made with the 

 corresponding fauna of Madagascar. The material, however, does not exist to make 

 this practicable. Bergroth has apparently received many Rhynchota from that large 

 island and has described a considerable number of genera and species in scattered 

 papers ; but he has practically given no figures which would allow of a more precise 

 appreciation of those descriptions, nor has he yet published a list of those already 

 described. 



* Cat. Heteroptera, v. (1872). t Rev. d'Entomologie, xii. (1893). 



