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oc. Seychelles. Mahe : near Morne Blanc; Mai-e aux Cochons district, 1000 — 

 2000 feet; Cascade, sea-level. Praslin: Cotes d'Or Estate. From grass, &c., in cultivated 

 places. 



This species is already proved to have a very wide distribution. I originally 

 described it from Ceylon ; since then it has been received from South Nigeria where 

 it was found by Dr Lamborn breeding on the young shoots of Kola and Cacao. It is 

 now to be also recorded from the Seychelles. The British Museum possesses a specimen 

 from Hawaii named by the late Mr Kirkaldy as Peregrinus maidis Ashm., and his 

 localities Fiji, New South Wales and Java probably also refer to P. simplicia. 



193. Pundaluoya pulchella. 



Pundaluoya pulchella Dist., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), ix. p. 190 (1912) ; loc. cit. 

 vi. p. 135, fig. 97 (1916). 



Loc. Seychelles. Mahe : Cascade Estate, about 800 feet and over. Brit. India : 

 Bengal, Travancore, Bombay. Ceylon. 



QpicoNSivA, gen. nov. 



Allied to Pundaluoya Dist. from which it differs in the elongate face, twice, 

 or a little more than twice, longer than broad ; vertex about as long or distinctly 

 longer than broad ; tegmina always quite three times longer than broad ; posterior 

 tibise with a short spine beyond middle, in addition to the inner long apical spur, 

 and the short outer apical spine. 



Type. 0. fuscovaria Dist. 



194. Opiconsiva fuscovaria (Plate 50, fig. 10 a). 



Head, pronotum and mesonotum castaneous, abdomen ochraceous with darker 

 shadings ; body beneath and legs ochraceous ; tegmina pale shining, bronzy-brown, 

 costal and apical margins (narrowly), and about the lower half of apical area fuscous, 

 remaining inner half paler fuscous ; wings hyaline, the veins fuliginous ; head (including 

 eyes) narrower than pronotum, antennae brownish-ochraceous ; face much longer than 

 broad, marginally and medially strongly carinate, the medial carination bifurcate at 

 base, obliquely narrowed near clypeus ; mesonotum tricarinate ; tegmina about three 

 times longer than broad ; posterior tibife with a long robust apical spine and a short 

 spine beyond middle. 



Long. excl. tegm. 3 mm. Exp. tegm. 11 to 11|^ mm. 



Loc. Seychelles. Silhouette : near Mont Pot-&,-eau, and from Mare aux Cochons, 

 over 1000 feet. Marie Anne Island. Mahe: Cascade Estate, 800 — 1000 feet; high 

 forest of Morne Blanc ; Anonyme Island. Found in the mountain-forests at considerable 

 elevations, and also in drier forest vegetation near sea-level. 



195. Opiconsiva colorata, sp. n. (Plate 50, fig. 11a). 



Head, pronotum and mesonotum black ; posterior angle of mesonotum and about 

 basal half of abdomen above, ochraceous, apical half of abdomen black ; body beneath 

 and legs ochraceous ; head and abdomen beneath black ; tegmina subhyaline, the veins 

 ochraceous, costal margin (narrowly), apical margin (slightly broader) and inner and 



