DISTANT— RHYNCHOTA. PART II: SUBORDER HOMOPTERA 307 



In high damp forests, often sittmg on palm leaves, &c. (Hugh Scott). 



A variable species in coloration ; sometimes the pale central spot to tegmina, 

 before the apical area (see fig.)> is obsolete, or entirely absent ; the colour of the 

 tegmina also varies from piceous-brown to either brownish-ochraceous or blackish. 



Family JassidSB. 



Subfamily Bythoscopinse. 

 This subfamily is represented by five* genera, three of which are found in the 

 Indian fauna, and two described for the first time may also eventually prove to belong 

 to that region. Nehela is represented by eight species. The Hawaiian Islands appear 

 to possess only one genus, Bythoscopus. 



Genus Idioceeus. 



Idiocerus Lewis, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. i. p. 47 (1836); Dist., Faun. Brit. Ind. 

 Rhynch. iv. p. 184 (1907). 



208. Idiocerus scotti, sp. n. 



Vertex of head pale greenish-ochraceous ; pronotum and scutellum more virescent, 

 the former with a small black spot near each lateral 

 margin (in some varietal forms with two central spots 

 also), the latter with two small black spots on basal 

 margin ; body beneath and legs pale greenish-ochraceous ; 

 tegmina olivaceous-brown, costal area very pale greenish- 

 ochraceous and containing a large prominent black spot 

 near middle, extreme costal margin bright olivaceous- 

 green ; face with a slightly darker spot at anterior 

 margin and a longer similar spot from eyes to base of 

 clypeus ; a somewhat elongate species; vertex of head -pi^ ^ idioceru tt' B' t 



nearly three times as broad as long, front, including 

 face, about as long as broad ; apices of the joints to posterior tarsi, black. 



Long, inch tegm. 4 to 4^ mm. 



Loc. Seychelles. Silhouette: near Mont Pot-a-eau; Mare aux Cochons, plateau and 

 jungle near by. Mahe : Cascade Estate, about 1000 feet. Praslin : Cotes d'Or Estate, 

 especially from Coco-de-Mer forest in the Vallee de Mai. Felicite Island : from forest. 



Kkonos, gen. nov. 



Vertex of head slightly more than twice as broad as long, rounded in front, 



moderately obliquely depressed ; face globosely depressed, broader than long, lateral 



margins concavely sinuate, narrow and truncate before clypeus, which is narrow and 



about two-thirds the length of face ; ocelli much nearer eyes than to each other ; 



pronotum obliquely, anteriorly depressed, and moderately raised on disk, about twice 



as broad at base as long ; scutellum about ttvice as broad at base as long, broadly 



* Galhoa typica Dist. (Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Zool. xiii. p. 46, PI. 4, fig. 11 (1909)) was described 

 from the first collection made by Prof. Gardiner (Mahe) but was not contained in the larger collection 

 here described. 



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