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scutellum pale castaneous, its apex ochraceous; corium pale shining ochraceous, a spot on 
lateral margin near middle, the apical angle, and a spot near inner angle, black; membrane 
subhyaline; body beneath castaneous, legs and rostrum ochraceous; antennee with the 
first and fourth joints ochraceous, second and third joints and extreme base of fourth, 
black or piceous, first joint passing apex of head, second and fourth subequal, each slightly 
longer than third; rostrum slightly passing the anterior cox, first joint not reaching 
base of head ; pronotum with the transverse impression slightly nearer to the posterior 
than to the anterior margin ; apical margins of corium straight. 
Long. 2 mm. 
Loc. Seychelles. Silhouette: near Mont Pot-d-eau, ca. 1500 feet; Mare aux 
Cochons. Mahé: country above Port Glaud, about 500—1000 feet ; near Morne Blane ; 
Cascade Estate, 800—1000 feet ; Mare aux Cochons district, 1000—2000 feet. Praslin : 
Cotes d’Or Estate. Félicité. 
47*. Dimella nitida (Reut.). 
Dinia nitida Reut., Ofv. Finska Vetensk. Soc. Férh., xxv. p. 24 (1832). 
Loc. Seychelles. Mahé: Cascade Estate, 800—1000 feet ; marshes on coastal plain 
at Anse aux Pins and Anse Royale. Félicité Island. Recorded by Bergroth from La Digue. 
Originally described from West Coast of Africa. 
A variable species in depth of coloration. Mr Scott reports it as 
of marshy places where it is swept from low vegetation.” 
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characteristic 
48. Aphanus consocialis, sp. n. (Plate 11, fig. 7). 
Head black, greyishly pilose; pronotum with the anterior lobe—excluding lateral 
margins—castaneous, posterior lobe ochraceous, thickly darkly punctate, lateral margins 
pale flavescent with a dark spot near anterior angles and an ocellated dark spot at 
posterior angles ; scutellum castaneous, with two contiguous elongate ochraceous spots on 
apical area; corium ochraceous, darkly punctate, two dark spots on lateral margin, one 
before and the other at apical angle ; body beneath castaneous ; legs ochraceous; antennze 
brownish-ochraceous, apex of third joimt and the whole of fourth, castaneous, first joint 
shghtly passing apex of head, second slightly longer than third or fourth, which are 
subequal ; posterior pronotal lobe coarsely darkly punctate with a central pale impunctate 
line ; scutellum slightly convex on basal area ; membrane pale brownish, the veins paler 
and with a whitish spot at apex ; anterior femora spined beneath near apex, intermediate 
and posterior tibize finely spinulose. 
Long. 44 to 5 mm. 
Loc. Seychelles. Silhouette: Mare aux Cochons. Mahé: Long Island. 
Allied to A. lineosws found in Minikoi, Ceylon and Burma. 
49*. Dieuches annulatus (Sign. ). 
Rhyparochromus annulatus Sign., Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1860, p. 949. 
Loc. Seychelles. Silhouette, Mahé, Dennis Island, Bird Island. Previously 
