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ginous ; femora black, extreme femoral apices, tibize and tarsi pale ochraceous ; rostrum 
ochraceous ; antennze with the first joint black, its apex ochraceous and passing apex of 
head, moderately thickened, second jot ochraceous with its apex black, about twice as 
long as first, third and fourth together about as long as second ; head longer than breadth 
between eyes, its apex subacute; corium finely, palely, pilose; membrane passing the 
abdominal apex ; body beneath black, the coxze ochraceous. 
Long. 3 to 34 mm. 
Loc. Seychelles. Silhouette: near Mont Pot-a-eau, about 1500 feet; Mare aux 
Cochons, over 1000 feet ; low coconut-planted country near the coast, Pointe Etienne. 
Mahé: from between leaf-bases of a growing Stevensonia palm near Morne Blane, 
ca. 800 feet, one specimen; also one specimen from low country. 
120. Fulvius? niger, sp. n. (Plate 18, fig. 9). 
Black ; head in front of eyes dull ochraceous; antennze with the first joint black, 
remaining joints ochraceous and finely pilose, first joint scarcely passing apex of head, 
second about or nearly twice as long as first, third and fourth together about as long as 
second; head longer than breadth including eyes, which are, rather long and adpressed ; 
pronotum transversely constricted near middle, the anterior angles rounded, lateral 
margins roundly oblique, very slightly sinuate, the surface distinctly finely punctate ; 
scutellum and corium distinctly finely punctate, membrane fuliginous, the basal area 
reflecting the dark abdomen beneath; legs black, tarsi pale ochraceous, posterior tibiz 
scarcely longer than the posterior femora. 
Long. 3 mm. 
Loc. Seychelles. Silhouette: from Mare aux Cochons, over 1000 feet. Mahé: 
precise locality uncertain. 
Apart from the length of the posterior tibiee, the general characters of this species 
appertain to the genus Mulviws in which I have provisionally placed it, the carded 
condition of the type making more precise generic identification very difficult. It is also 
allied to Fulvidius Poppius. 
MaARALAUDA™, gen. nov. 
Subelongate, moderately broadened posteriorly ; head longer than breadth between 
eyes, anteriorly narrowed, the central lobe prominent; antennz with the first joint 
shorter than head, second about twice as long as first and a little thickened on apical 
third, third and fourth together about as long as second ; rostrum passing the posterior 
coxee, first joint slightly passing base of head ; pronotum convex on basal area, deflected 
and narrowed anteriorly, lateral margins obliquely rounded, about twice broader at base 
than at anterior margin ; scutellum subtriangular, as long as broad at base, transversely 
striate; corium (including cuneus) a little longer than head, pronotum and scutellum 
together, laterally deflected, cuneus broader than long, cuneal fracture profound ; 
* Named after the “Sealark” which carried the ‘“‘ Percy Sladen Trust Expedition” to the Indian Ocean in 
1905, 
