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Family PHYMATIDvE. (Vol. II, p. 146.) 



To this small family only two jiiore species can now be added. 

 Doubtless other species will be found by collectors ; in the 

 Ethiopian Region the first tw'o have only recently been described. 



Genus GLOSSOPELTA. (Vol. II, p. 150.) 



2899. Glossopelta dudgeoni, Dist. Entomologist, xxxvii, p. 277 (1904). 



Black ; anterior lateral margins of pronotum, conuexivum, a 

 longitudinal spot on each side of head beneath, rostrum, sternum 

 (excluding lateral angles), abdomen and legs stramineous ; head 

 granulose, area of the ocelli and the eyes castaneous ; antenncT 

 with the first joint robust, granulose, almost as long as second 

 and third joints together, second and third joints short, more 

 slender than the other joints, subequal in length and attenuated 

 at their bases, fourth joint iucrassate, pyriform, with its base 

 castaneous, and longer than second and third together; pronotum 

 with the antei'ior lobe finely and sparingly granulose, the posterior 

 lobe very coarsely punctate with two diseal ridges commencing on 

 posterior margin of anterior lobe, anterior lateral margins strongly 

 crenulate, posterior angles produced, their apices broadly concavely 

 truncate ; scutellum very finely densely and obscurely punctate 

 and with a central longitudinal raised line ; connexivum broadly 

 and convexly produced to second segment and then sinuately 

 narrowed to its apex. 



Length 10 millim. ; exp. pronot. angl. 4 millim. 



Hah. Kangra Valley, 4,500 ft. {Dudgeon, Coll. Dist.). 



Allied to G. truncata, Dist. (vol. ii, p. 150) by the truncate 

 posterior angles to the pi'onotum, but these in G. dudgeoni are 

 more produced and outwardly concavely sinuate ; the scutellum 

 is less sinuate near base, and the colour is also of a very distinctive 

 character. 



2900. Glossopelta lineolata, Disf. A. M. N. H. (S) iii, p. 496 



(1909). 



Body above black ; pronotum with the anterior lateral margins, 

 a transverse fascia (medially interrupted) between the humeral 

 angles, the diseal carination, and a small darkly punctate spot at 

 base, ochraceous ; scutellum with a central longitudinal line and 

 some macular suffusions on the apical half ochraceous ; con- 

 nexivum, body beneath, legs and rostrum pale ochraceous ; head 

 benenth black ; antennas brownish ochraceous, basal joint (ex- 

 cluding apex) and apex of apical joint black ; membrane, as seen 

 on each side of apical half of scutellum, violaceous; corium, as 

 seen on each side of basal half of scutellum, black, posteriorly 

 outwardly ocliraceous ; anteocular and postocular portions of head 

 almost equal in length, centrally longitudinally sulcately impressed 



