DISTANT—RHYNCHOTA. PART I: SUBORDER HETEROPTERA 179 
_ Long. 4 mm. 
Loc. Seychelles. Silhouette: Mare aux Cochons, over 1000 feet, VIII. 1908, one 
specimen. 
112. Lygus silhouettensis, sp. n. (Plate 13, fig. 18). 
Ochraceous ; basal and sublateral areas of pronotum, scutellum and clavus, brownish- 
ochraceous; scutellum with three obscure paler spots, two on basal margin and one at 
apex; cuneus and membrane greyish-white, the latter with opaline lustre ; body beneath 
more or less testaceous, legs ochraceous, apices of posterior femora and bases of posterior 
tibiz annulated with fuscous; antennze ochraceous, second joint more than twice as long 
as first, its apex fuscous, third fuscous, pale at base; eyes black, inwardly testaceous ; 
pronotum transversely striate and subgranulose ; scutellum and corium distinctly, some- 
what longly, palely pilose. | 
Long. 4 mm. 
Loc. Seychelles. Silhouette: Mare aux Cochons, over 1000 feet, IX. 1908, one 
specimen. 
113. Proboscidocoris pluto, sp. n. (Plate 18, fig. 4). 
Body above black; sides of head level with insertion of antennae to apex, two spots 
between and near eyes, narrow lateral margins to pronotum, apex of scutellum, lateral and 
apical margins of corium and margins of cuneus, ochraceous; body beneath dull dark 
castaneous; femora castaneous, base of intermediate and posterior femora ochraceous, 
tibiee and tarsi pale ochraceous, tibial bases and apex of anterior tibize black; antennz 
with the first joint castaneous, second ochraceous with its apex black, third and fourth 
fuscous, base of third pale ochraceous, first joint about as long as head, second more than 
twice as long as first, third and fourth together as long as second; pronotum thickly, 
finely punctate; corium finely, obscurely pilose; scutellum moderately tumid, finely, 
transversely striate ; membrane fuliginous, passing abdominal apex, cellular areas darker 
with their margins pale; rostrum ochraceous, its apex black. 
Long. 43 to 5 mm. 
Loc. Seychelles. Silhouette: low coconut-planted country near the coast, Pointe 
Etienne. Mahé: marshes on coastal plain at Anse aux Pins and Anse Royale; marshy 
ground near sea-level at Cascade. 
I have placed this species in Reuter’s genus Proboscidocoris which is very near 
Peciloscytus excepting for the more porrect head. I have seen an undescribed species 
from Uganda, in bad condition, labelled Proboscidocoris intermedius Popp., which appears 
to be nearest to the species above described. 
114. Hermotinus villosulus, sp. n. (Plate 18, fig. 5). 
Head and pronotum longly pilose; head and anterior area of pronotum greyish, 
remaining pronotal area pale brownish with darker spots, two transverse blackish spots 
anteriorly, and four darker brown spots posteriorly ; scutellum pale brownish, with two 
rounded black spots near base and the apex white; corium mottled brown, the clavus and 
