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PERCY SLADEN TRUST EXPEDITION 



Paganalia, gen. nov. 



Head nearly twice as broad between eyes as long, triangularly produced before 

 eyes, ocelli near base, much closer to eyes than to each other ; face about twice as 

 long as broad, narrow, centrally compressed, about three times as long as clypeus ; 

 pronotum a little longer than vertex or scutellum, anteriorly narrowed and convexly 

 produced, the apical and posterior margins truncate ; scutellum much broader than 

 long, basal margin longer than either of the lateral margins ; tegmina considerably 

 passing abdominal apex, veins simple and longitudinal. Allied to the Nearctic and 

 Neotropical genus Helochara. 



223. Paganalia virescens, sp. n. 



Dull virescent, apical areas of the tegmina irregularly pale fuscous-brown ; body 



beneath virescent, legs pale ochraceous, anterior and 

 intermediate tibiae obscurely annulated with pale fuscous, 

 posterior tibise outwardly margined with small blackish 

 spots at the bases of the spinules ; eyes black, their 

 inner margins beneath sanguineous ; structural charac- 

 ters as in generic diagnosis. 



Long. incl. tegm. 6 mm. 



Log. Seychelles. Mahe : Long Island. 



Fig. 10. Paganalia virescens Dist. 



Subfamily Jassinae. 



This subfamily is not so largely represented in the collection as might have been 

 expected. The species are contained in eight genera, six of which have a wide 

 distribution, and only two have had to be considered as previously undescribed. 



Two species, Chelusa seychellensis Dist., and Athysanus insularis Dist., previously 

 brought home by Prof Gardiner, and described in these Transactions (1909), were 

 unrepresented in this much larger collection. 



Genus AcROPONA. 



Acropona Melich., Hom. Faun. Ceylon, p. 168 (1903) ; Dist., Faun. Brit. Ind. 

 Rhynch. iv. p. 300 (1908). 



224. Acropona prasina (Plate 51, fig. 17 a). 

 Gypona prasina Walk., List Hom. SuppL, p. 258(1858). 

 Acropona prasina Melich., Hom. Faun. Ceylon, p. 168 (1903). 

 ? Walkeri Kirk., Entomologist, xxxiii. p. 294 (1900). 

 Eogypona walkeri Kirk., I.e. xxxiv. p. 39 (1901). 



