DISTANT— RHYNCHOT A. PART II: SUBORDER HOMOPTERA 283 



Log. Seychelles. Silhouette: near Mont Pot-a-eau, about 1500 feet; Mare aux 

 Cochons, and forest above. Mahe : from high forest of Morne Blanc and Pilot, up to 

 2000 feet; country above Port Glaud, about 500 — 1000 feet; high damp forest between 

 Trois Freres and Morne Seychellois, about 1500 — 2000 feet; forest above Cascade 

 Estate; Mare aux Cochons district, 1000 — 2000 feet. 



155. Volcanalia modesta, sp, n. (Plate 50, fig. 15 a). 



Vertex of head sanguineous ; pro- and mesonota ochraceous ; body beneath and 

 legs pale ochraceous ; face ochraceous, the apex sanguineous ; tegmina very pale 

 ochraceous, towards base reflecting the dark abdomen beneath, the margins of the 

 apical area spotted with fuscous ; vertex very narrow between eyes and projecting a 

 little beyond them ; mesonotum distinctly tricarinate ; face a little longer than clypeus, 

 with the lateral margins moderately oblique, its apex distinctly continued before 

 eyes and moderately emarginate ; tegmina with the veins distinctly setigerous. 



Long. 4 mm. 



Log. Seychelles. Silhouette : high country near Mont Pot-a-eau. Mahe : from country 

 above Port Glaud, about 500 — 1000 feet ; high damp forest at summit of Morne Pilot, 

 over 2000 feet ; high damp forest between Trois Freres and Morne Seychellois, about 

 1500— 2000 feet; Mare aux Cochons district, 1000— 2000 feet ; Cascade Estate, forest, 

 1000—2000 feet. 



156. Volcanalia uniformis, sp. n. 



Body and legg ochraceous ; tegmina subhyaline with the veins stramineous, but 

 when unexpanded reflecting the ochraceous body beneath ; face ochraceous, more or 

 less tinted with sanguineous, a waved oblique narrow sanguineous fascia commencing 

 near anterior margin and continued on lateral areas of sternum ; vertex narrow 

 between eyes and distinctly projecting beyond them, its lateral margins distinctly 

 ridged ; face a little longer than clypeus, broadened and moderately convex towards 

 clypeus, centrally and laterally carinate ; pronotum strongly tricarinate ; venation of 

 the tegmina somewhat coarse. 



Long. 5 mm. 



Log. Seychelles. Silhouette : from high country. Mare aux Cochons, and forest 

 near by. Mahe : country above Port Glaud, about 500 — 1000 feet, forest above 

 Cascade Estate and forest near Mount Harrison, 1700 feet. 



Allied to the previous species V. modesta. 



157. Volcanalia capitata, sp. n. (Plate 51, fig. 2 a). 



Vertex of head black ; pronotum and mesonotum pale fuscous-brown ; face pale 

 fuscous or blackish, the apex sanguineous ; body beneath and legs dull ochraceous ; 

 tegmina ochraceous, the apical area paler, base of costal margin, an angulated trans- 

 verse fascia before apical area which has two spots on its outer margin and a series 

 of smaller spots on its inner margin, fuscous-brown ; vertex very narrow between eyes 

 and very distinctly projecting beyond them ; mesonotum distinctly tricarinate ; face a 



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