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PERCY SLADEN TRUST EXPEDITION 



Long. 3-J mm. 



Loc. Seychelles. Silhouette : forest above Mare aux Cochons. 

 above Port Glaud, about 500 — 1000 feet. 



Mahe : country 



Genus Balclutha. 



Gnathodus Fieb., Verb. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xvi. p. 504 (1866), nom. praeocc. 

 Balclutha Kirk., Entomologist, xxxiii. p. 243 (1900), nom. n. 

 An almost universally distributed genus. 



232. Balclutha chersonesia, sp. n. 



Bright golden-yellow, tegmina much paler except on claval area ; scutellum with 

 a dark spot near each basal angle ; ocelli near the eyes distinctly visible near passage 

 of vertex to front; vertex with a narrow central longitudinal line; face with a 



distinct central longitudinal line and the lateral margins 

 pale, the striated area more pale piceous ; scutellum 

 distinctly transversely impressed. 

 Long, inch tegm. 3^ to 4 mm. 



Loc. Seychelles. Silhouette : Mare aux Cochons, 

 and forest near by ; low coconut-planted country near 

 the coast, Pointe Etienne. Mahe : from near Morne 

 Blanc; country above Port Glaud, about 500 — 1000 

 feet; Cascade Estate, 800 — 1000 feet; Anonyme Island; 

 marshes on coastal plains at Anse aux Pins and Anse 

 Fig. 13. Balclutha chersonesia Dist. Royale. 



233. Balclutha varicolor, sp. n. 



Head and scutellum dark ochraceous ; pronotum and tegmina pale greenish-ochraceous ; 



abdomen above black, the segmental margins and apex 

 ochraceous; body beneath and legs ochraceous; tegminal 

 veins mostly paler in hue ; vertex of head with a central 

 longitudinal ridge ; pronotum moderately arched and cen- 

 trally ridged ; scutellum distinctly transversely impressed. 



Long. incl. tegm. 3 to 3 J mm. 



Loc. Seychelles. Silhouette : Mare aux Cochons ; 

 low coconut-planted country near the coast, Pointe Etienne. 

 Mahe : near Morne Blanc, about 1000 feet ; from grass in 

 Fig. 14. Balclutha varicolor Dist. cultivated country, about 1000 feet. 



Genus SCAPHOIDEUS. 



Scaphoideus Uhler, Trans. Maryl. Ac. Sci., p. 33 (1888). 



This very widely distributed genus has three representatives in the Seychelles. 



