200 Annals of /// .S'<>/// African 



STJBTEIBE AMBLYPYGIN1. 



CHAKITOJOPPA, Cam. 

 Ann. Nat. Hist, vii, 190], p. 383. 



Head with neither clypeus discreted nor labrum exserted ; man- 

 dibles stout, with the upper tooth slightly the longer; cheeks elongate 

 and strongly buccnte. Antennae stout and. beyond their centre, 

 compresso-dilated. Meso- and meta-notnin strongly reticulate; areola 

 smooth, apically incomplete, with its lateral carinae extending to 

 petiole and widely divergent. Scutellum more or less pyramidal, with 

 at least its base laterally margined. Abdomen with second and third 

 segments closely aciculate-punctate and ventrally plicate throughout, 

 gastrocoeli of the former somewhat large and deeply impressed; 

 petiole basally constricted, and apically abruptly explanate ; terebra 

 basally covered by hypopvgium. Legs stout, with the penultimate 

 hind tarsal joints spinose. Areolet triangular, laterally nearly coales- 

 cent above and straight below, above junction of recurrent uervure ; 

 radius apically subreflexed ; basal nervure not continuous through the 

 median. Colour brilliant metallic. 



The above is the original description emended from the type 

 specimen in the British Museum. I find our African representative a 

 very typical species of this East Indian genus, which its author 

 considered closely related to M<jr<'ttia (= Xenojoppa, Cam.), from 

 which it differs in having the scutellum usually subpyramidal and not 

 apically incised, the coxae mutic, and the central abdominal, segments 

 longitudinally aciculate. The scutellar structure allies the genus to 

 the Joppides, from which it is excluded by its total lack of basal 

 metanotal sulcus. 



CHARITOJOPPA THORACICA, sp. nov. 



(J only. A stout, metallic species with white pilosity ; the head 

 black, antennae and thorax red, metathorax green, abdomen and legs 

 steel-blue. Head very strongly buccate behind the prominent eyes ; 

 vertex broad and subglabrous ; face and clypeus evenly punctate, the 

 former broadly stramineous on either side, the latter a little reflexed 

 along its rounded apex ; mandibles subglabrous and stout, with a 

 basal stramineous mark. Antennae of forty-one joints, setaceous, 

 serrate throughout, stout and hardly extending to the metathoracic 

 apex, brick-red and apically darker, with the two basal flagellar joints 

 (which alone are longer than broad) and scape, black. Thorax metallic 



