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Log. Seychelles. Silhouette : from highest forest, over 2000 feet. Mahe : Cascade 

 Estate, 800—1000 feet; top of Mount Sebert, nearly 2000 feet. Praslin : C6tes d'Or 

 Estate. Originally described from Ceylon, and also recorded from the Maldives*. 



225. Acropona gardineri, sp. n. (Plate 51, fig. 21 a). 



Above bright olivaceous-green ; body beneath and legs pale green ; anterior margin 

 of vertex of head and subanterior margin of face, continued on each side to near eyes, 

 sanguineous ; differs from the preceding species, A. prasina, by the darker olivaceous- 

 green coloration above, the sanguineous apical fasciae to vertex and face ; vertex of head a 

 little shorter ; pronotum with a more or less distinct transverse impression before middle. 



Long, inch tegm. 10 to 12 mm. 



Log. Seychelles. Mahe : Cascade Estate, about 1000 feet ; from forest of rather 

 stunted Capucin trees (Northea) on summit of " Montagne Anse Major," 2000 feet 

 or over. Praslin : Cotes d'Or Estate. 



226. Acropona sladeni, sp. n. (Plate 51, fig. 19 a). 



Body above dark sanguineous, body beneath and legs pale sanguineous ; anterior 

 margin of vertex narrowly ochraceous, anterior margin of fa,ce ochraceous, subanterior 

 margin dark sanguineous; apart from the different coloration this species differs from 

 the two preceding by the broader, and laterally more sinuate face ; the scutellum 

 also possesses two distinct longitudinal ridges with a posteriorly transverse convex 

 impression between them. 



Long, inch tegm. 11 mm. 



Log. Seychelles. Praslin : Cotes d'Or Estate. 



Genus Jassus. 



Jassus Fabr., Syst. Rhyng., p. 85 (1803); Syn. &c., Dist., Faun. Brit. Ind. 

 Rhynch. iv. p. 327 (1908). 



227. Jassua indicus (Plate 51, fig. 13 a). 

 Ccelidia indica Walk., List Hom. iii. p. 855 (1851). 

 Tettigonia jactans Walk., 1. c. Suppl., p. 357 (1858). 



■ Jassus deplanatus Spangb., Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1878, no. 8, p. 23. 



Jassus indicus Dist., Faun. Brit. Ind. Rhynch. iv. p. 327; fig. 210 (1908) ; Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. Zool. xiii. p. 46 (1909). 



Log. Seychelles : though not a native species, this was found largely in the high 

 endemic mountain-forests. Silhouette; near Mont Pot-a-eau, over 1000 feet; Mare aux 

 Cochons, marshy plateau and jungle above. Mahe : from near Morne Blanc ; from grass 

 in cultivated country, about 1000 feet; Cascade Estate, 800—1000 feet; top of Mount 

 Sebert, nearly 2000 feet; Mare aux Cochons district, 1000—2000 feet. Also found 



* I have it recorded in my journal that a number of specimens of Acropona were taken in a particular 

 dry, scrubby type of forest-vegetation, which is found especially in connection with areas of bare granite 

 "glacis." The Acropona were obtained thus in Mahe (Cascade Estate) and in a valley behind Grande Anse, 

 Praslin. But whether these statements refer to A. prasina and A. gardineri equally, or to one more than 

 the other, is very hard to say. — H. Scott. 



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