DISTANT—RHYNCHOTA. PART I: SUBORDER HETEROPTERA 159 
third very long, fourth distinctly longer than first and second together; head sub- 
quadrate, three short porrect spines between the antennal bases and a blunt robust spine 
outside the antennal bases, eyes close to the anterior margin of the pronotum ; pronotum 
with the anterior margin subtruncate, the lateral margins laminately convexly dilated, 
the posterior margins longly, angularly, posteriorly developed, the anterior area tricarinate, 
the central carination continued to the posterior angle, the lateral marginal areas sub- 
hyaline, bi-areolate ; elytra with the discoidal area long and moderately slender, closely 
finely areolate, subcostal area small and ill-defined, costal area broad, somewhat obliquely 
widened at base, the lateral margins subparallel, apical margins rounded, areolate ; sutural 
area ill-defined ; legs long and slender. 
Allied to Gelchossa Kirk, n. n. = Leptostyla Stal preoce. 
This genus is named after Alberto Cantino, on whose charts the Seychelles appeared 
in 1502. 
62. Cantinona precellens, sp. n. (Plate 11, fig. 15). 
Head black, apex of anterior central spine ochraceous; antenne black, first joint 
flavescent, apical area of third and the whole of fourth obscure ochraceous ; pronotum 
black, the anterior margin ochraceous, longitudinal carinations brownish-ochraceous, lateral 
marginal areas subhyaline with the margins of the areolets black; elytra with the 
discoidal area black, narrow subcostal area obscure ochraceous, costal area subhyaline, the 
margins of the areolets ochraceous, extreme costal margin black, from the apex of 
the discoidal area a curved fasciate series of black margined areolets to apical margin 
of costal area; legs pale ochraceous, tarsi black. Structural characters as in generic 
diagnosis. 
Long. 33 mm. 
Loc. Seychelles. Mahé: Cascade Estate, ca. 1000 feet, 1909 ; Mare aux Cochons 
district, 1500—2000 feet, I. 1909. Félicité, 1. XII. 1908. 
Three specimens examined, two of which are typical, agreeing with the figure, the 
third is a pale variety in which the black coloration is replaced by pale brownish- 
ochraceous. 
Family Aradide. 
Four species of Aradidz are now enumerated from Seychelles, only one having been 
previously recorded. 
63*. Prctinus mvalidus, Bergr. 
Pictinus mvalidus Bergr., Entomol. Tidskr., xv. p. 109 (1894). 
_ toe. Seychelles. Silhouette: forest near Mont Pot-d-eau, ca. 1500 feet; Mare aux 
Cochons and forest above; low coconut-planted country near coast, Pointe Etienne. 
Mahé: high forest of Morne Blanc and Pilot; high damp forest between Trois Fréres and 
Morne Seychellois, 1500—2000 feet ; slopes of Morne Seychellois, 1500—2000 feet; Mare 
aux Cochons district, 1500—2000 feet; Cascade Estate. Praslin: Cotes d’Or Estate. 
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