DISTANT— EHTNCHOTA. 45 



more or less piceous ; apices of femora, three annulations to anterior and intermediate 

 tibige, apices of tarsi and apex of rostrum piceous ; vertex considerably projecting in front 

 of eyes ; face elongate, much longer than broad, narrowest at base and widened towards 

 clypeus, which is also elongate but shorter than face ; posterior tibiae with a long robust 

 apical spur ; antennae with the first joint a little shorter than the second, the first apically 

 fuscous and the second biannulated with fuscous ; tegmina subhyaline, the veins 

 alternately ochraceous and black, the apical margin distinctly black-spotted, costal margin 

 ochraceous; wings hyaline, the veins mostly black. 



Long. excl. tegm. 8 millim. ; exp. tegm. 14 millim. 



Locality. Praslio, Desroches. 



Family CercopidSB. 



Subfamily Aphrophorlnss. 



59. Ptyelus mahei, sp. n. (Plate 4. figs. 14, 14 «.) 



Piceous or piceous brown ; lateral and apical margins of the vertex narrowly ochraceous, 

 containing two small black spots at apex ; scutellum with a central black spot at base ; 

 body beneath and legs piceous, apices of the femora, bases of the anterior and intermediate 

 tibige, and the whole of the posterior tibiae and tarsi pale ochraceous ; vertex considerably 

 shorter than the pronotum, obscurely thickly finely punctate, about half as long as 

 breadth between eyes, convexly rounded anteriorly, the margin somewhat reflexed; 

 pronotum obscurely thickly finely punctate, a central incised longitudinal line on 

 anterior area, and a central raised longitudinal line on posterior area; scutellum very 

 finely transversely wrinkled ; tegmina densely finely punctate ; rostrum reaching the 

 intermediate coxae, testaceous at base, black at apex ; face centrally finely granulose, 

 transversely striate on lateral areas ; posterior tibiae with two strong spines. 



Long. 8 millim. 



Localiti/. Mahe. 



Family JassidsB. 



Subfamily Bythoscopinse. 



GALBOA, gen. nov. 



Vertex very short, angular, obliquely directed in front of eyes, which almost extend 

 to the lateral pronotal angles ; face broader than long, strongly centrally longitudinally 

 carinate ; ocelli placed near apex of face between eyes, farther apart from each other than 

 from eyes, about as far apart from central carination as from eyes ; clypeus not visible 

 in the strongly carded typical specimen ; pronotum about as long as scutellum, conically 

 produced in front, angularly concave at base, the lateral angles broadly angulate but not 

 produced j scutellum broad, subtriangu.lar, an angulate impressed line before apical area ; 



