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150. Volcanalia designata, sp. n. 



Body and legs ochraceous ; eyes black ; face and clypeus ochraceous, the latter 

 with a spot at base and the apex, black ; tegmina hyaline 

 much suffused with ochraceous, a slightly curved and 

 broken transverse fascia at about two-thirds from base, 

 from which, near middle, a longitudinal fascia extends 

 to apex, and the apices of the apical veins, black ; vertex 

 narrow between eyes and a little roundly continued 

 beyond them, the lateral margins distinctly ridged ; face 

 distinctly produced beyond eyes, its apex subtruncate, 



distinctly ampliated and rounded before clypeus, which Kg. i. Volcancdia designata Dist. 

 is about as long as face ; mesonotum tricarinate. 



Long. 4^ mm. 



Loc. Seychelles. Silhouette : high country near Mont Pot-a-eau. 



151. Volcanalia cardui, sp. n. (Plate 50, fig. 20 a). 



Vertex of head sanguineous ; pro- and mesonota pale ochraceous, the latter with 

 the lateral areas and a central fascia pale castaneous-brown, the central fascia 

 medially traversed by a sanguineous line ; body beneath and legs pale ochraceous ; 

 face with an arcuated transverse fascia, extending to anterior margin, and clypeus 

 with a narrow basal fascia, sanguineous ; abdomen with lateral marginal black spots ; 

 tegmina with the basal two-thirds greyish, suffused with ochraceous and bluish-grey 

 markings, apical third pale ochraceous, anteriorly margined wdth a curved fuscous 

 transverse fascia, and inwardly and posteriorly margined with fuscous spots, a large 

 white spot on its disk and a smaller white and fuscous spot on costal margin at about 

 one-fourth from apex ; vertex narrow between eyes and distinctly projecting beyond 

 them, its lateral margins carinately reflexed ; face a little longer than clypeus, with the 

 anterior margin subtruncate, centrally moderately excavate, its lateral margins moderately 

 oblique, moderately produced in front of eyes ; mesonotum finely tricarinate ; tegmina 

 with the veins obscurely setigerous. 



Long. 5 mm. 



Loc. Seychelles. Mahe : all from stunted forest vegetation at the top of Mount 

 Sebert, nearly 2000 feet, i. 1909. 



152. Volcanalia picturata, sp. n. (Plate 50, fig. 19 a). 



Vertex of head, pro- and mesonota more or less fuscous-brown, with the margins 

 and carinations paler ; abdomen above black, the basal area and segmental margins 

 testaceous ; head beneath, sternum and legs pale ochraceous, abdomen beneath black, 

 the segmental margins ochraceous, face with an arcuated anterior fascia, and clypeus 

 with a very broad fascia, sanguineous ; tegmina very pale dull ochraceous, the veins, 

 three more or less oblique fascise and some apical spots, dull dark castaneous ; wings 

 pale fuliginous, with darker longitudinal shadings ; vertex very narrow between eyes, its 

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