',',[!> lOiiMicrn.T:. 



Jf((/>. Het'urclcd so far witliiu Indian limits only from Orissa i 

 BoDi^a] {Ta>/lor), but probably extends tbroiigli Nortbern India t 

 Arabia and Nortb-eastern Africa. Originally described fror 

 Soiiialiland. 



in 



to 

 rom 



.">')^. Acantholepis opaca, Fan/, Ann. Sw. Ent. Ih-li/c, \xxvi (1892), 

 p. 42: Jonr. liomb. N. //. AWr. viii (I8i)4), ]>. 413, ^ ; ix (1895), 

 p. 458. 



5 . Head reddish brown, mandibles and antennae pale tt-staceous, 

 tborax and node of pedicel reddish yellow, legs testaceous sbaded 

 with fuscous, a])domeu a beautiful purplish black. Head and 

 thorax tinely and very closely punctured, opaque: al'domen shining, 

 with in certain lights a metallic tint. Head, tborax and abdomen 

 covered with fairly abundant short semi-erect white hairs, and 

 an extremely minute sericeous pubescence only seen in certain 

 lights. Ilead without the mandibles nearly square, the occi|>ut 

 slightly flattened and transverse : mandibles rather large, acutely 

 dentate; dypeus largo and veiy convex, medially vertically cari- 

 nate ; antennae with the scape rather short, extending very little 

 bevond the top of the head. Thorax : the pronotum broad, nearly 

 as broad as the head, flat above, the mesonotura moderately 

 constricted, the meso-metanotal suture deep and wide ; the meta- 

 nolum short, its sides forming lateral acute tubercles. JS'ode of 

 the pedicel proportionately somewhat thick and high, surmounted 

 by two parallel acute spines on the lateral antrles above ; abdonien 

 large and massive, slightly depressed and acutely pointed at apex. 



Le))(/tJi, g 2*2-2-5 mm. 



IJab. Western India : recorded from Kanara and (loa 

 (Aitken). 



3ol». Acantholepis pulchella, Fore/, Ann. Soc. Ent. BeUje, xxxvi 



(1892), p. \^, ^ . 



^ . Eesembles A. opuca, Yovel, but the thorax, especially the 

 pronotum, is narrower, and the region of the mesouotum is not so 



Fig. W>. — AcaiiiJwlcpis'pulcJulld, 1^. 



strongly constricted. Head, thorax and abdomen dark purplish 

 brown, lighter on the anterior poition of the thorax, while the 

 abdomen is dull black, with a light reddish-yellow spot above at 



