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Subfamily Cymine. 
34*, Ninus sechellensis, Bergr. 
Ninus sechellensis Bergr., Rev. d’Ent., xi. p. 201, 1893. 
Loc. Seychelles. Silhouette, low coconut-planted country near coast, IX. 1908. 
Mahé: Cascade Estate, about 1000 feet, and cultivated country near sea-level; marshes 
on coastal plain of Anse aux Pins and Anse Royale; Port Victoria. 
Subfamily Heterogastrine. 
HYGINELLUS, gen. nov. 
Allied to Hyginus Stal, but differing by the long rostrum which considerably passes 
the posterior coxee, and by the short and rather robust spine to the anterior femora. 
A single and somewhat mutilated specimen is alone contained in the collection, but 
in this faunistic enumeration it cannot be ignored. In the specific description of the type 
the secondary structural characters will be detailed. 
35. Hyginellus gayer, sp. n. (Plate 11, figs. 6, 6a). 
?. Head, pronotum and scutellum black ; apex of scutellum and about basal half of 
corium greyish-white, the latter with a short sublateral black streak, apical area of 
corium black; membrane pale bronzy, the base black and its apical area piceous; 
connexivum black with an elongate ochraceous lateral spot before apex; body beneath 
legs and rostrum black, apex of first joint of rostrum and bases of intermediate femora 
flavescent (posterior legs mutilated in type); head thickly coarsely punctate, a little 
longer than length between eyes; antennze piceous, first joint shorter than head, second 
about twice as long as first, remaining joints mutilated in type, second joint shortly 
thickly pilose, first joint slightly thickened ; ocelli near base, nearer to eyes than to each 
other; pronotum closely, coarsely punctate, transversely impressed a little before middle, 
with a central longitudinal carinate line not extending beyond middle of posterior lobe, 
anterior margin almost truncate, posterior margin moderately concave, lateral margins, 
especially on anterior lobe slightly subampliate, posterior angles subnodulose, scutellum 
with a cruciform elevation, excluding apex, closely coarsely punctate; clavus and corium 
longitudinally distinctly punctate ; membrane reaching abdominal apex and with distinct 
basal cells ; rostrum extending considerably beyond the posterior coxe, first joint slightly 
passing base of head, second joint passing anterior coxee, third joint slightly passing 
intermediate coxze ; head beneath, and sternum thickly coarsely punctate. 
Long. 9 mm. 
Loc. Seychelles (J. A. de Gaye). 
Subfamily Pachygronthine. 
36*. Pachygrontha bipunctata, Stal. 
Pachygrontha bipunctata Stal, Hem. Afr., 11. p. 149 (1865). 
Loc. Seychelles. Mahé: from grass in plantations &¢. near coast, not m mountains. 
Originally described from Mauritius. 
