140 PERCY SLADEN TRUST EXPEDITION 
Subfamily Cydnine. 
1*. Cydnus pallidipenns, Reut. 
Cydnus pallidipennis Reut., Ofv. Finn. Vetensk. Soc., xxv. p. 3 (1882). 
Aithus pallidipennis Bergr., Rev. d’Ent., xii. p. 198 (1893). 
Loc. Seychelles. Mahé; 1906 (Thomasset); Long Island, VI. 1908. 
2. Macroscytus fryert, sp. n. 
Black, shining, posterior margin of pronotum and the corium dark castaneous ; 
antenne and rostrum (the latter imperfectly seen in carded specimen) ochraceous ; body 
beneath shining piceous; femora dark castaneous; tibize ochraceous minutely spotted 
with black and with the spinules black; tarsi ochraceous; head rounded in front, a few 
coarse punctures on anterior margin, central lobe prominent; antennze with the second, 
third and fourth joints subequal in length, third and fourth stoutest (fifth mutilated in 
typical specimen) ; pronotum sparsely and irregularly but distinctly punctate, the surface 
irregular, two distinct punctate indentations on each lateral marginal area, one before 
middle, the other near posterior angle, margins of both head and pronotum rather longly 
sparsely ciliate; scutellum sparsely but distinctly punctate, its apex subacute; corium 
sparsely and very finely punctate, the basal area of lateral margin ciliate ; membrane pale 
brownish ochraceous, passing abdominal apex; tibize strongly spinulose, the spinules 
black. 
Long. 74 mm. 
Loc. Aldabra, 1908—9 (Fryer). 
Allied to M. lobatus Sign., but differmg in the distinctly coloured tibize, different 
punctuation of the pronotum and scutellum, broader apex of scutellum ete. 
A single specimen only of this species has been received. 
3*. Geotomus proximus, Sign. 
Geotomus proximus Sign., Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1883, p. 54, t. 4, fig. 163. 
Loc. Seychelles. Silhouette, low country, VIII. 1908. Mahé: country above Port 
Glaud, 500—1000 feet, XI. 1908: Cascade Estate, 800—1000 feet: marshes on coastal 
plain, Anse aux Pins and Anse Royale, I. 1909: Bird and Dennis Islands, 1908 (Fryer). 
Previously recorded from Praslin and La Digue. 
4. (feotomus sp. 
A single carded specimen from Mahé is closely allied to G. proaimus but the colora- 
tion of body and legs is bright, pale castaneous with the antennze ochraceous. 
Loc. Seychelles. Mahé: high forest near Morne Blane, XI. 1908. 
CHILOCORISTOIDES, gen. nov. 
General characters of Chilocoris but differing in the structure of the scutellum which 
is distinctly shorter than broad and with the lateral margims distinctly sinuate before apex 
which is rounded. 
