174 PERCY SLADEN TRUST EXPEDITION 
Family Capside. 
In my previous enumeration of the Capsidee in this fauna only three species could be 
recorded ; the number is here increased to twenty-four. Two species however recorded 
by Reuter (Trigonotylus ruficornis var. tenuis and Cyrthorrhinus parviceps) from the 
Seychelles are not found in this collection. 
The Capside from the Seychelles have very wide and diverse generic aftinities. 
Aretas, Felusacus and Hermotinus were founded for the reception of Oriental species, 
while Vannius, Cylapus and Fulvius were originally regarded as neotropical genera. One 
species, Callicratides rama Kirby, an Oriental species, is found in the Seychelles. Some of 
the other genera are of world-wide distribution ; others are described as new. 
Genus CALLICRATIDES. 
Callicratides Dist., Faun. Brit. Ind., Rhynch., ii. p. 417 (1904). 
Hyalopeplus Reut. (nec Stal), Acta Soc. Sci. Fenn., 1910, p. 158. 
101. Calhicratides rama (Kirby). 
Capsus rama Kirby, Journ. Linn. Soc. London, Zool., xxiv. p. 106 (1891). 
Loc. Seychelles. Mahé: Cascade Estate, about 1000 feet, II. 1909, one specimen. 
Originally described from Ceylon where it is not uncommon. Only a single specimen 
contained in this collection, the species probably introduced. 
102. Megacelum flagellatum, sp. n. (Plate 18, fig. 14). 
Above fuscous-brown, more or less irrorated with dark ochraceous; anterior and 
posterior margins of pronotum and lateral margins of corium, narrowly pale testaceous ; 
pronotum with two anterior black spots between which the colour is paler and ochraceous ; 
cuneus castaneous, the anterior and lateral margins pale testaceous ; membrane fuliginous 
with opaline lustre; body beneath (imperfectly seen in carded type) and legs dull 
ochraceous, lateral areas of the sternum black; bases and apices of tibize black, posterior 
femora with the apical halves castaneous annulated with ochraceous ; antennee with the first 
joint a little thickened, ochraceous, apically black, nearly as long as head and pronotum 
together, second joint ochraceous with three black annulations, more than twice as long as 
first, third joint castaneous, basally ochraceous followed by black, a little shorter than 
second, fourth piceous with its base pale ochraceous ; head finely, centrally, longitudinally 
incised ; pronotum distinctly punctate, the two anterior black spots callose; apex of 
seutellum darkly subnodulose ; tibize finely spinulose. 
Long. 8 mm. 
Loc. Seychelles. Silhouette: marshy plateau of Mare aux Cochons, ca. 1000 feet. 
Mahé: Cascade Estate, from forest 1000—2000 feet. 
Allied to M. antennatum Kirby from Ceylon and Nilgiris, but with the first and 
second joints of antennz longer, and with different colour and markings, pronotum also 
distinct. 
