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together and distinctly passing the eyes; pronotum about as long as the head, anterior 
lobe shorter than the posterior lobe which has two obtuse tubercles on disk a little 
in front of the hind angles which are somewhat longly straightly spinous; membrane 
slightly passing the abdominal apex ; legs shortly finely pilose. 
ono enrnes Oealls ermnns 
Loc. Seychelles. Silhouette: from near Mont Pot-d-eau, and from Mare aux 
Cochons, over 1000 feet, VIII. 1908. Mahé: near Morne Blane, about 1000 feet; Cascade 
Estate &c. 
Subfamily Nabidine. 
91*. Acanthobrachys elegantula (Stal). 
Arbela elegantula Stal, Hem. Afr., iii. p. 42 (1865). 
Loc. Seychelles. Silhouette : near Mont Pot-d-eau, ca. 1500 feet; Mare aux 
Cochons and forest above, over 1000 feet; cultivated country near coast. Mahé: near 
Morne Blane, ca. 1000 feet; Cascade Estate, ca. 1000 feet, and forest above; also low 
country. Swept from grasses; characteristic of more open places in lower part of 
mountain-forests, about 1000 feet (H. Scott). Originally described from Bourbon. 
92*, Nabis capsiformis, Germ. 
Nabis capsiformes Germ., in Silberm. Rev., v. p. 132 (1837). 
Loc. Seychelles. Mahé: from grass in cultivated country, about 1000 feet; 
Caseade Estate, about 1000 feet. Almost universally distributed. 
Family Saldide. 
93. Salda msignis, sp. n. (Plate 12, fig. 9). 
Head, pronotum, scutellum and corium black ; lateral margin, outer cellular space, 
and four small spots—two outside each claval area and one on each side of inner angle— 
to corium, and membrane—excluding black venation—dull greyish-white ; body beneath 
black ; legs ochraceous ; antennze black, basal joint ochraceous, fourth fuscous-brown, 
third distinctly thickened, about as long as fourth; pronotum subtruncately emarginate 
before scutellum, the lateral margins oblique, very slightly sinuate, the anterior margin 
less than half the breadth between posterior angles; corium moderately convexly rounded 
at lateral margins; posterior tibize distinctly spinulose, anterior and intermediate tibise 
apparently non-spinulose, in unique carded type. 
Long. 24 mm. 
Loc. Seychelles. Mahé: from cultivated country near sea-level at Cascade, 20. IL. 
1909, 1 specimen. 
Family Ceratocombide. 
Ceratocombide Fieb., Eur. Hem., p. 25 (1861). 
Dipsocoride Kirk., Canad. Entomol., 1906, p. 38. 
