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greyishly tomentose, costal margin very narrowly from beyond middle, apical margin, 

 and inner margin to apex of clavus (more broadly), sanguineous ; wings milky white ; 

 vertex of head including eyes narrower than pronotum, the anterior lateral angles 

 a little acutely prominent ; face a little broader than long with a central carination 

 not quite reaching clypeus ; pronotiim anteriorly truncately produced ; mesonotum 

 with two discal carinations ; tegmina twice as long as broad, costal margin not sinuate, 

 apical margin subtruncate, costal membrane in some places wider than radial area ; 

 clavus distinctly granulose, the granules somewhat sanguineous ; posterior tibiae with 

 two short spines beyond middle. 



Long. excl. tegm. 6^ mm. Exp. tegm. 18^ to 19 mm. 



Log. Seychelles. Silhouette : Mont Pot-a-eau, high foi-est, over 1000 feet. 



Genus Flatoides. 



Flatoides Gudr., Rfegn. Anim. Ins., p. 362 (1838); Dist., Faun. Brit. Ind. Rhynch. 

 iii. p. 459 (1906). 



191. Flatoides protea, sp. n. (Plate 50, figs. 9 a, b). 



Body above very pale virescent, inclining to pale ochraceous, abdomen above with 

 the segmental margins greyishly tomentose ; pronotum with three small discal black 

 spots ; mesonotum with six black spots of which the two lateral spots are the largest ; 

 body beneath and legs pale ochraceous, more or less greyishly tomentose ; tegmina very 

 pale virescent with a few darker and paler suffusions ; wings creamy-white, the venation 

 ochraceous ; head including eyes distinctly narrower than pronotum at base ; vertex 

 longer than broad, somewliat attenuated towards apex, the lateral margins distinctly 

 reflexed and with two small black spots on each side ; face considerably longer than 

 broad, a little concave, the lateral margins strongly ridged and a little concave at 

 region of the eyes ; tegmina about twice as long as broad, the costal membrane 

 nearly three times as broad as radial area, the costal membrane and apical margin 

 strongly veined; posterior tibiae with two spines. 



Var. Tegmina more ochraceous in hue with black suffusions as in fig. (9 b). 



Long. excl. tegm. 8 mm. Exp. tegm. 18 mm. 



Log. Seychelles. Silhouette, from marshy plateau of Mare aux Cochons, about 

 1000 feet, and forest above. Mahe, from near Morne Blanc. 



Subfamily Delphacinse. 



This subfamily is well represented in the present collection. I was only enabled 

 to enumerate one species in the result of the former expedition ; fourteen species 

 comprised in five genera are now recorded. 



Genus PUNDALUOYA. 



Pundaluoya Kirk., J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xiv. p. 52 (1902) ; Dist., Faun. Brit. 

 Lid. Rhynch. iii. p. 467 (1906). 



192. Pundaluoya simphcia. 



Pundaluoya simplicia Dist., Faun. Brit. Ind. Rhynch. iii. p. 468, fig. 255 (1906). 



