LOBOPELTA. 



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coxcB and femora dull black, and the tibiie above shaded with 



fuscous black ; head, thorax and 

 abdomen densely punctured, the 

 punctures somewhat coarser than 

 in L. h)jsterica, and with scattered 

 erect short black hairs. Head with 

 the mandibles and antennae as in 

 L. hysterica, but the clypeus is 

 broader and not so strongly cari- 

 nate. Thorax stouter than in the 

 above species, rounded above, not 

 emarginate, and with the meso- 

 metanotal suture obsolete above ; 

 legs as in L. hysterica. Node of 

 the pedicel comparatively larger, 

 cubical, seen from above longer 

 than broad ; abdomen massive, 

 about as long as the thorax. 

 Length, ^ 5-6 mm. 

 Hah. India, Sikhim (MoUer), 

 Calcutta {Rothney). 

 This species is very closely allied to L. hysterica, but is larger 



and more stoutlv built. 



Fig. 35. 



Lobopelta punctiventris, ^ , 



77. Lobopelta binghami, Forel, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xiii (1900), 

 pp. 305 & 310, ^ . 



^ . Black ; the mandibles, autennge and femora, tibiaj and tarsi 

 of the legs dull castaneous red, the scape of the antennae and the 

 femora of the legs of a darker red, the apical margins of the 2ud 

 and succeeding abdominal segments narrowly translucent, tes- 

 taceous yellow ; head, thorax and basal segment of the abdomen 



Fig. 3G. — Lohopelia bhialiaml, ^. a. Head from front. 



opaque, very finely and densely punctured, on the basal portion of 

 the metanotum posteriorly, and on the node of the pedicel the 

 punctures are coarser ; 2nd and succeeding segments of the abdo- 

 men dull black, slightly punctured ; the head, thorax and abdomen 

 covered with abundant sliort erect black hairs ; pubescfuce want- 

 ing. Head oval, slightly narrowed posteriorly ; mandibles long, 



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