188 PERCY SLADEN TRUST EXPEDITION 
Loc. Seychelles. Silhouette: from Mare aux Cochons and forest above, over 1000 
feet. Over 50 specimens were beaten from palm-leaf thatch of hut at Mare aux Cochons, 
IX. 1908 (H. Scott). 
134. Ostorodiasoides signatus, sp. n. (Plate 18, fig. 28). 
Ochraceous ; eyes and space between them, posterior margin of pronotum, base of 
scutellum, claval suture, and cuneus piceous or black; head beneath, sternum (excluding 
prosternum), and abdomen beneath, piceous or black; legs ochraceous; antenne 
ochraceous, setose, first and second joints moderately thickened, second more than twice 
as long as first and black at apex; pronotum transversely constricted behind middle, 
behind constriction distinctly punctate, before constriction with three foveations, one 
central and one near each lateral margin; scutellum abruptly depressed near middle; 
corium distinctly pilose ; anterior femora broadly thickened, shortly spinose beneath. 
Long. 25 to 3 mm. 
Loe. Seychelles. Silhouette: Mare aux Cochons and forest immediately above, 
over 1000 feet ; low coconut-planted country near the coast. 
Genus SESELLIUS. 
Sesellius Dist., Faun. Brit. Ind., Rhynch., ui. p. 6 (1906). 
Scoloposcelis Popp. nec Fieb. 
135. Sesellius parallelus (Motsch.) (Plate 18, fig. 27). 
Anthocoris parallelus Motsch., Bull. Soc. Mose., xxxvi. (3), p. 89 (18638). 
Sesellius parallelus Dist., Faun. Brit. Ind., Rhynch., iii. p. 7, fig. 6 (1906). 
Scoloposcelis picicornis Popp., Acta Soc. Sci. Fenn., xxxvii. no. 9, p. 26 (1909). 
Scoloposcelis parallelus Popp., Wien. ent. Zeit., xxix. p. 140 (1910). 
Loc. Seychelles. Silhouette: Mare aux Cochons, over 1000 feet, IX. 1908, one 
specimen. Mahé: Mare aux Cochons* district, 1000—2000 feet, I. 1909, one specimen. 
Originally described from Ceylon. I am now able to give a better figure of this species, 
the Ceylonese specimen I figured in Faun. Brit. Ind. series being in a somewhat indifferent 
condition. 
Family Nepide. 
136*. Ranatra grandocula, Berger. 
Ranatra grandocula Bergr., Rev. d’Ent., xii. p. 207 (1893). 
Loc. Seychelles. Mahé: Cascade Estate. Silhouette: from a stream on the Mare 
aux Cochons plateau, over 1000 feet. 
* The name “ Mare aux Cochons” is given to two distinct localities, one in the island of Mahé, and the 
other in Silhouette. 
