iTie Seychelles Islands and AlJahra. 



W: 



small and roundei^, joints 3-6 elongate and more slender, 

 joii;ts 7-11 form a dilated club wliich is covered with 

 brownish pubescence. Pronoium twice as broad as Ion?, 

 front marfiin more or less serratefl, lateral margins rounded ; 

 surface of disc uneven, im punctate ; tlie lateral expansions 

 with lHr<;re and deep punctures, the centres of which are 

 more or less hyaline. Sculel/um triangular ; apex rounded. 

 El'/tra : basal portion green, deeply and closely punctate, 

 centres of punctures red ; the green portion of each elytron 

 is separated from the apical red portion by an oblique costa, 

 one end of which terminates iu a swelling at the middle 

 of the lateral expansion, the other end joiuing with au 

 irregularly-branched costa on the apical rod portion of the 

 elytrou ; cost?c shining ; the apical red portion of the elytra 



Hoplionota hla, sp. n. 



has the suture raised and is deeply and closely punctate ; 

 elvtral expansions sparsely and deeply punctate, centres of 

 the punctures more or less hyaline. 



Loc. Seychelles : Mahe; Cascade Estate, ca. 800 ft., 1909 

 (//. P. Thomasset). 



Type in the British Museum : described from one example. 



H. Ilia is related to H. thiemi, Weise, H. guerini, AVeise, 

 and H. maryinata, Boh., from Madagascar. All of these 

 are without elvtral spines or tubercles, and also have the 

 basal portion of the elytra without any pronounced costa. 

 H. Ula differs from all the others by (I) the orange-red 

 colour of the prothorax, scutellum, &c., (2) its larger size, 

 (3) the proportionately greater length of the antennie, (4) the 



Ann. 6c Mag. 2\ . Hist. hJer. §. VoL xix. 



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