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flavescent, first jot short, thick, not nearly reaching apex of head, second and fourth 
longest, almost subequal in length, third and fifth subequal ; head coarsely punctate, many 
of the punctures black, lateral margins concavely sinuate in front of eyes, lobes about equal 
in length, apical margin moderately rounded ; pronotum with the lateral margins sinuate, 
the anterior portion finely crenulate, the anterior angles very shortly palely spinous, 
posterior angles moderately strongly laterally produced, their apices bifid, the anterior 
spine much the longest, the whole surface closely coarsely punctate with a central pale 
longitudinal carinate line, the lateral margins and the anterior area a little more palely 
testaceous; scutellum longer than broad at base, its apex rounded, thickly punctate, 
somewhat more coarsely so on basal area, three small spots on basal margin and the 
apical margin pale flavescent, a dark foveate spot at each basal angle ; corium somewhat 
opaque, thickly finely punctate; membrane black, only slightly passing the abdominal 
apex ; connexivum ochraceous, with a dark olivaceous spot on each side of the segmental 
incisures ; body beneath pale testaceous, mottled and marked with black; sternum and 
abdomen with a submarginal blackish irregular fascia which on the abdomen is connected 
with the lateral margin by a series of distinct spots; femora black with their bases pale 
testaceous, anterior femora with a prominent spine before apex ; tibize black, more or less 
centrally flavescent, anterior narrowly, intermediate and posterior broadly, anterior tibiz 
moderately dilated ; rostrum about reaching the posterior coxe. 
Long. 8 to 9 mm. 
Loc. Aldabra, 1907 (Thomasset). 
The first and only representative of the Asopime yet recorded from the islands 
visited by this Expedition. 
Subfamily Tessaratomine. 
18*. Sepina seychellensis, Dist. 
_ Sepina seychellensis Dist., Trans. Linn. Soc. London, ser. 2, Zool., xiii. p. 31, Pl. 4, 
f 3 a (1909). 
Loc. Seychelles. Mahé: near Morne Blanc, about 1000 feet; Cascade Estate, 
800—1000 feet (many specimens were found together in the decayed outer leaf-bases 
of a Stevensonia palm growing in the forest, 29. XII. 1908). Silhouette: Mare aux 
Cochons. 
19. Sepia antennata, sp. n. 
Fuscous-brown ; lateral margins of head and margins of central lobe, lateral and 
anterior margins and a discal longitudinal spot to pronotum, basal angles and a central 
longitudinal fascia to scutellum (neither reaching base nor apex) and a central discal spot 
to corlum, ochraceous or testaceous; membrane piceous; connexivum ochraceous or 
testaceous with dark spots at segmental incisures ; body beneath ochraceous or testaceous, 
sternum and abdomen with a black submarginal fascia; legs brownish-ochraceous, apices 
of femora, tibise and tarsi infuscated ; antennze with the first and second joints brownish 
or piceous, remaining joints black, apices of third and fourth joints broadly annulated with 
