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beyond middle, first joint of posterior tarsi longer than the other two joints together, 

 tegmina about two and a half times as long as broad, the apical margin rounded, 

 veins mostly longitudinal, transverse veins very few, costal margin slightly depressed 

 at stigma ; wings broader than tegmina, a few transverse veins on apical half. 



Allied to Aselgeia Walk. 



142. Aselgeoides insularis, sp. n. (Plate 49, figs. 1, la). 



Head, thorax and abdomen ochraceous, apical area of abdomen more or less 

 testaceous ; legs flavescent ; tegmina subhyaline, the veins closely spotted with fuscous, 

 the stigma fuscous, anteriorly ochraceous, wings pale fuliginous, the veins darker; 

 structural characters as in generic diagnosis. 



Long. excl. tegm. 6 mm. Exp. tegm. 12 mm. 



Loc. Seychelles. Silhouette: near Mont Pot-a-eau, over 1000 feet; marshy 

 plateau of Mare aux Cochons, about 1000 feet, and from forest above. Mahe : from 

 near Morne Blanc; country above Port Glaud, about 500 — 1000 feet; forest above 

 Cascade Estate, 1000 feet; from stunted forest vegetation on summit of Mount 

 Sebert, circa 2000 feet ; high damp forest at summit of Morne Pilot, over 2000 feet. 



Subfamily Cixiinse. 



Of this abundant subfamily seven genera are here enumerated, only two of which 

 were previously known, and five are proposed as new. It is noteworthy that neither of 

 the somewhat universally distributed genera, Oliarus and Cixius, is included in this 

 collection ; Brixia however, another widely spread genus, is found in the Seychelles. 



Genus Caneirona*. 



Caneirona Dist., Faun. Brit. Ind. Ehynchota, vol. vi. p. 38 (1916). 



Vertex about as broad as long, the lateral margins strongly carinate, the anterior 

 margin with a short central spine, the anterior lateral angles also shortly spinous and 

 distinctly extending beyond eyes ; face longer than greatest breadth, widened behind 

 eyes towards clypeus, anterior margin more or less truncate, posterior margin angularly 

 concave with an ocellus on each side, the lateral margins reflexed, centrally strongly, 

 longitudinally ridged ; clypeus much shorter than face, centrally ridged, laterally 

 reflexed ; rostrum long, passing the posterior coxse ; pronotum very short, posteriorly 

 angularly concave ; mesonotum about twice as long as vertex and pronotum together, 

 tricarinate ; abdomen moderately robust ; tegmina twice as long as greatest breadth, 

 gradually widened towards apex, costal margin distinctly waved, apices rounded, claval 

 vein not reaching apex, apical areas distinctly delineated ; wings shorter than tegmina, 

 the broadest areas of each about equal in width, discally shortly transversely veined ; 

 posterior tibiae unarmed. 



Caneirona is allied to Commolenda Dist., at present only known from Ceylon. 



* This genus is named after Nicolas Caneirio on whose charts the Seychelles appeared in 1502. Since 

 this description was written a second species, C. indica Dist., has been received from S. India and is 

 described in the Faun. Brit. Ind. Rhynchota, vol. vi. p. 39, fig. 24 (1916). 



