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longitudinal fascia, the anterior area and the posterior angles black; scutellum with two 
discal obscure dull greyish spots and its apex pale ochraceous ; corium pale ochraceous, 
claval streaks, a small sublateral spot near base, another beyond middle, a third near apex, 
and a patch (containing a small pale spot) near inner angle, piceous ; membrane bronzy, 
basal area black ; lateral margin pale with a brown spot; body beneath black; legs pale 
ochraceous, anterior femora, excluding extreme bases and apices, more than apical halves 
of intermediate and posterior femora and extreme apices of tibize and tarsi black, extreme 
apices of intermediate and posterior femora, pale ochraceous; antennee brownish- 
ochraceous, apices of second and third joints and fourth joint, excluding base, black, first 
Joint a little shorter than head, second and fourth subequal in length, each slightly longer 
than third ; head with a fine central longitudinal incision between the eyes ; lateral and 
posterior margins, and an indistinct central line to anterior pronotal lobe greyishly pilose, 
the anterior lobe very slightly longer than the posterior lobe; clavus longitudinally, 
rather coarsely punctate ; rostrum reaching the intermediate coxee, ochraceous, basal joint 
and apex piceous, first joint not reaching base of head, second about reaching anterior 
cox ; anterior femora longly spined beneath. 
Long. 5 to 6 mm. 
Loc. Seychelles. Silhouette: Mare aux Cochons. Mahé: country above Port 
Glaud, about 500—1000 feet; near Morne Blanc, about 1000 feet; Port Victoria ; 
Cascade Estate, about 1000 feet. Usually swept from grasses in open or cultivated places 
(H. Scott). 
44. Lachnophorus singalensis (Dohrn). 
Rhyparochromus singalensis Dohrn, Stett. ent. Zeit., xxi. p. 404 (1860). 
Loc. Seychelles. Mahé, from grass in cultivated country, about 1000 feet. Also 
recorded from Madagascar, Bombay and Ceylon. 
45. Lachnophorus albidomaculatus, sp. n. (Plate 11, fig. 9). 
Head, anterior lobe of pronotum and scutellum black, lateral margins and posterior 
area of pronotum pale testaceous, the latter thickly blackly punctate, a small black oblique 
spot near the posterior angles; corium brownish-ochraceous with piceous mottlings, an 
elongate spot in clavus, three spots outside clavus, the lowermost near inner angle with 
two in transverse series beyond it, greyish-white ; membrane piceous with a spot beneath 
apical area of corium and some apical macular markings greyish-white; body beneath 
and legs black or dark castaneous, apices of the femora and basal joints of the tarsi 
ochraceous; antennee black, first joint slightly passing apex of head, second a little longest, 
third and fourth subequal and distinctly incrassate. 
Long. 5 to 6 mm. 
Loc. Seychelles. Silhouette: from near Mont Pot-d-eau. Mahé, above Port Glaud, 
500—1000 feet. Bird Island (Fryer). Aldabra, 1907 (Thomasset). 
46. Cligenes gardineri, sp. n. (Plate 11, fig. 10). 
Head black, shortly greyishly pilose, apex testaceous; anterior lobe of pronotum 
castaneous, posterior lobe ochraceous, darkly punctate, posterior angles castaneous ; 
