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area and apical area of posterior margin more or less fuscous-brown, a distinct black 

 spot on lower half of apical margin ; wings hyaline, the venation pale ochraceous ; 

 eyes black, lateral marginal areas of mesonotum, castaneous ; structural characters as 

 in generic diagnosis. 



Var. a. Tegmina without the fuscous-brown suffusions, these being replaced by 

 pale yellowish. 



Long. excl. tegm. 5 to 6 mm. Exp. tegm. 15 mm. 



Log. Seychelles. Silhouette : Mare aux Cochons, and high forest above. Mahe : 

 near Morne Blanc, about 1000 feet; top of Mount Sebert, nearly 2000 feet; Cascade 

 Estate, about 1000 feet; forest near Mount Harrison 1700 feet. 



Neoprivesa, gen. nov. 



Allied to Privesa but differing by the costal membrane of the tegmina being very 

 narrow for about one-fourth from base and then moderately ampliated towards apex; 

 in the type specimen here figured there is a transverse vein to the lower ulnar area, 

 but this is not a constant character ; the face is shorter and broader, and the vertex 

 distinctly conically rounded. The structure of the costal membrane to the tegmina, 

 and the conically rounded anterior margin of the vertex compel generic separation. 



183. Neoprivesa fuscovaria, sp. n. (Plate 49, figs. 8, 8 a). 



Body above brownish -ochraceous, more or less spotted or suffused with black ; 

 margins of vertex before eyes, and carinations to pro- and mesonota, pale ochraceous ; 

 body beneath and legs pale ochraceous, face finely sprinkled with fuscous ; tegmina 

 subhyaline with fuscous-brown markings and suffusions, the most prominent of these 

 are oblique, irregular fasciae on apical area ; the transverse veins to costal membrane 

 are prominently fuscous ; wings hyaline, the veins, apical margin and a longitudinal 

 streak — widened posteriorly — before abdominal area, dark fiiliginous ; vertex conically 

 rounded in front ; pronotum with the lateral areas ochraceous. 



Long. excl. tegm. 7 mm. Exp. tegm. 19 mm. 



Loc. Seychelles. Mahe: country above Port Glaud, about 500 to 1000 feet; 

 Bale Lazare ; Anonyme Island. Silhouette : Mare aux Cochons. 

 Aldabra; 1907 (Thomasset), 1908 (Fryer). 



Genus Privesa. 



Privesa Stal, Rio Jan. Hem. ii. p. 70 (1858); Melich., Ann. Hofmus. Wien, xiii. 

 p. 282 (1898) ; Dist., Faun. Brit. Lid. Rhynch. iii. p. 386 (1906). 

 Dechitus Walk., Journ. Ent. i. p. 311 (1862). 



184. Privesa fryeri, sp. n. (Plate 49, fig. 7 a). 



Body and legs ochraceous ; a spot on each side of vertex and a discal central 

 spot to pronotum divided by a median pale carinate line, fuscous ; mesonotum more 

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