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230. Athysanus frontalis, sp. n. 



Pale flavescent, the tegmina subhyaline ; vertex of head with an angulate black 

 linear fascia between the eyes ; anterior and inter- 

 mediate femora biannulated with black, extreme apices 

 of posterior femora, and apices of joints of posterior 

 tarsi, black or blackish; anterior third of face regularly 

 blackly transversely striate with a central longitudinal 

 ochraceous spot, remaining area reticulately blackly 

 striate ; clypeus with the lateral margins black ; body 

 beneath more or less shaded with black ; face elongate, 

 about as long as breadth between eyes ; vertex of head 

 subconically produced before eyes ; head with the eyes 

 somewhat wider than the pronotum. 



Long. incl. tegm. 4^ to 5 mm. 



Loc. Seychelles. Mahe : Port Victoria, from grass in Botanic Gardens ; Cascade 

 Estate, 800 — 1000 feet; low country — various localities. 



Fig. 11. Athysanus frontalis Dist. 



Matsumurana, gen. nov. 



Head much broader than long, convexly rounded before eyes, which posteriorly 

 overlap the anterior lateral margins of the pronotum ; face broad and moderately 

 globose, its lateral margins convexly rounded, about as broad as long ; clypeus about 

 half the length of face ; pronotum about twice the length of vertex, anterior margin 

 convex between the eyes, posterior margin truncate ; scutellum shorter than pronotum, 

 moderately transversely impressed before apex ; tegmina about three times as long as 

 broad, apices moderately narrowed and rounded, lateral margins convex, claval area 

 broad, three apical cells ; posterior tibiae longly spinulose outwardly, more shortly and 

 finely spinulose inwardly. 



Allied to Dagama Dist., a genus at present only recorded from Natal, from which 

 it differs by the more conically produced vertex in front of eyes, the broader and 

 shorter face, and by having only three apical cells to tegmina; it also has affinities 

 with MimotellicB Mats. 



231. Matsumurana facialis, sp. n. 



Above cinnamomeous-brown ; vertex of head with three more or less distinct 

 narrow pale ochraceous transverse fasciae, the extreme 

 anterior margin also of that colour ; pronotum with 

 four transverse pale ochraceous fasciae ; scutellum 

 with a dark spot near each basal angle, and four 

 pale spots, two near anterior margin, and one on 

 each lateral margin ; tegmina with paler suffusions 

 and some irregular black spots, of which the principal 

 are three oblique spots on each lateral margin, a spot 

 at apex of clavus, the apical areas also black ; apical 

 area of abdomen above black ; structural characters 

 as in generic diagnosis. Fig. 12. Matsumurana facialis Dist. 



