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little longer than clypeus with its lateral margins moderately sinuately oblique, its 

 apex truncate, and continued some distance before eyes, both face and clypeus strongly 

 centrally carinate. 



Long, inch tegm. 4 mm. 



Loc. Seychelles. Silhouette : from high forest above Mare aux Cochons. 



Genus Brixia. 

 Brixia Stal, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Forh., 1856, p. 162. 



158. Brixia mahensis, sp. n. (Plate 49, fig. 14 a). 



Body and legs ochraceous, lateral areas of pronotum very pale ochraceous ; in- 

 terior area of face, behind eyes, a little darker ; tegmina semihyaline, the veins darkly 

 setigerous, two oblique transverse fuscous fasciae (one basal directed outwardly, the 

 other near middle directed inwardly), two blackish spots between these fascise, an 

 arcuate blackish line before apical area, a transverse fascia in apical area and part of 

 the inner apical margin fuscous, the latter with small marginal whitish spots, an 

 ochraceous stigmatal costal spot ; wings pale fuliginous, the venation darker ; vertex 

 of head narrow between the eyes, the lateral margins carinately reflexed ; face centrally 

 excavate, the lateral margins moderately convexly curved and very strongly carinately 

 reflexed, a distinct pale ocellus at its base ; mesonotum tricarinate. 



Long. excl. tegm. 4 mm. Exp. tegm. 14 mm. 



Loc. Seychelles. Mahe : from grass in cultivated country, about 1000 feet. 

 A single specimen. 



159. Brixia steUata, sp. n. (Plate 49, fig. 17 a). 



Body and legs ochraceous ; vertex of head carinations to pro- and mesonota and 

 legs, very pale ochraceous ; face with the interior area more or less castaneous ; tegmina 

 subhyaline, with an oblique fasciate-line near base, two subcostal spots before middle, 

 a curved line before apical area, preceded by two oblique costal lines and some other 

 discal suffusions, and an inner apical marginal fascia, fuscous, a distinct black spot 

 near inner side of apical margin ; wings very pale fuliginous, the veins darker ; vertex 

 of head distinctly extending beyond eyes, the lateral mai^gins strongly carinately 

 reflexed ; face widened towards clypeus, the lateral margins strongly carinately reflexed, 

 a distinct pale ocellus at its base ; mesonotum tricarinate. 



Long. excl. tegm. 4 mm. Exp. tegm. 13 mm. 



Var. a. Darker in hue, the ground colour of the tegmina being subopaque and 

 the markings more dark castaneous. 



Var. h. Paler in hue than in type ; all the markings more ill-defined, some 

 absent. 



Loc. Seychelles. Silhouette: from Mare aux Cochons, about 1000 feet. Mahe: 

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



