58 I'ORMICIU,*. 



c5' . Mandibles short, very acutely pointed ; head rounded, the 

 vertex above strongly convex; the niesonotuni vith a faintly- 

 marked Y-«haped furrow ; metanotum long, depressed, the basal 

 portion oblique, passing by a rounded curve into the apical por- 

 tion ; wings hyaline with a brownish tint ; legs long and slender ; 

 node of the pedicel conical. 



Length, ^ 8-9 ; 6 9-10-5 mm. 



Hah. Nearly the whole of peninsular India and Ceylon, not 

 extending to Assam or Burma. 



64. Lobopelta birmana, Forel, Jaw. Bomh. N. H. Soc. xiii (1900), 

 pp. 30") c^ .-ilO. 

 Lobopelta distingruenda, Emery, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xxvii (1889), 

 p. 498, iiec Emery, Ann. Mtts. Civ. Gen. xxv (1887), p. 430. 



^ . Closely resembles L. ocelUfera, Eog., but the head is shorter, 

 more squai'e and massive, the ])osterior lateral angles more 



Fig. S'd- — Auteuna o'i Lobopelta birmana, showing broad joints. 



prominent ; the antennae shorter and thicker, the scape not, or 

 only very slightly, passing beyond the top of the head. In colour 

 this species is slightly paler, and many specimens have a metallic 

 bluish tint as in L. cJiinensis, Mayr. The abdomen is proportion- 

 ately shorter and the constriction between the basal two segments 

 broader, with very tine, almost obsolete transverse stria?. 



(5 . Similar to the d of L. ocelUfera, but shorter and more 

 stoutly built. 



Leuf/tJi, 5 7-8 ; c? 9 mm.. 



Hah. Assam (Smythies) ; Burma ; Tenasserim (Fea, Bingham). 



This is the Eastern i-ace or representative of the continental 

 L. ocelUfera. 



65. Lobopelta dentilobis, Forel, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xiii (1900), 

 pp. .•!0o & 30i), 9 . 



$ . Dark castaneous red, the legs slightly paler red, the sides 

 of the thorax in certain lights with a bluish metallic lustre, as in 

 L. chiuensis, Mayr. Head somewhat closely and finely, thorax 

 more sparsely punctured ; abdomen smooth, polished and shining. 

 Head, thorax and abdomen covered fairly abundantly with short, 

 erect, pale red hairs ; pubescence almost entirely wanting. Head 



