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apical area more piceous, the lateral margins largely spotted with white; cuneus pale 
ochraceous, with two small spots and the apex brownish ; membrane piceous mottled with 
greyish; body beneath and legs pale ochraceous, the first with some minute brownish 
spots, femora and tibize annulated with brownish ; antennze piceous, first joint and central 
annulation and apex of second joint ochraceous, first joint longer than head, second nearly 
three times the length of first, third and fourth together nearly as long as second ; 
pronotum very longly pilose on the lateral margins; rostrum reaching the intermediate 
coxee ; membrane passing abdominal apex. 
Long. 44 mm. 
Loc. Seychelles. Mahé: Cascade Estate, ca. 1000 feet, one specimen. 
The genus Hermotinus Dist. was founded for the reception of a species from 
Teusasserim, since received also from Ceylon and India. The above is the second species 
I have seen. 
115. Cyrtopeltus atricornis, sp. n. (Plate 18, fig. 13). 
Head, pronotum and scutellum ochraceous; eyes black ; corium dull greyish, cuneus 
greyish with a fuscous spot at base and apex; membrane greyish, subhyaline with opaline 
lustre ; antenne black, first joint passing apex of head, second more than twice as long as 
first, third about as long as second; head considerably longer than broad between eyes, 
the apex produced; pronotum with the anterior margin about half the breadth of 
posterior margin, transversely constricted near middle, behind which it is finely but 
distinctly punctate; scutellum with a central longitudinal ridge; cuneus elongate, much 
longer than broad, its apex acute; body beneath brownish-ochraceous, the sternum more 
or less ochraceous ; legs stramineous, finely setose. 
Long. 44 mm. 
Loc. Seychelles. Mahé: Cascade Estate, ca. 1000 feet. 
One varietal specimen has the antennz fuscous, with the basal joint almost 
ochraceous. 
Cyrtopeltus is both a Palearctic and Ethiopian genus. 
116. Dereocoris seychellensis, sp. n. (Plate 12, fig. 19). 
Pronotum and corium shining black; head testaceous, eyes black; margins of 
pronotum narrowly ochraceous; scutellum ochraceous; membrane pale fuliginous, 
excepting at apex reflecting the dark abdomen beneath; sternum black; abdomen 
beneath piceous ; rostrum, coxee, and legs pale ochraceous, apices of the tibiz black; 
antennee ochraceous, apex of first jot and about apical third of second joint black, first 
joint nearly as long as head, second more than twice as long as first, about apical third 
distinctly thickened and pilose, the last two joints pilose and together shorter than the 
second ; eyes touching the anterior margin of pronotum ; pronotum and corium distinctly 
punctate ; scutellum slightly tumid; membrane distinctly passing the abdominal apex ; 
tibiee finely setose. 
Long. 4 mm. 
