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apical portion obliquely truncate ; legs stout, posterior tibiae very 

 slightly compressed. Node of pedicel bluntly conical ; abdomen 

 narrow, elongate. 



^ mln. Similar, smaller ; head com- 

 paratively broader and not so cylin- 

 drical, anteriorly more obtuse than 

 truncate ; head and thorax more 

 pubescent. 



§ . Similar to the ^ maj. ; head 

 not so large or so sharply truncate ; 

 truncated portion not so depressed. 

 Lenf/th, ^ nnij. 11-12; ^ min. 9- 



9-5 ; 2 1^'^ '11111- 

 Hab. Malabar (Jerdon) ; Burma ; extending to Borneo. 

 It is with some doubt that I have described as C. stricta 

 specimens of a Cohhopsis in the British Museum Collection from 

 India, Burma, and Borneo, labelled as such by the late Mr. F, 

 Smith. Jerdon's original description is quite inadequate for 

 certain identification ; he gives the metanotum as bideutate 

 posteriorly (" post-thorax in the form of a rounded narrow plat- 

 form ending in two points "). None of the specimens in the British 

 Museum labelled C. stricta have the metanotum bideutate, other- 

 wise, however, they answer very well to Jerdon's description so 

 far as this goes. 



Fio-. 104. —Colohojms ttfricfa, ^ . 



395. Colobopsis pubescens, Mcajr, Vcrh. zool.-hot. Ges. Wien, xii 



(186:2), p. 691, $ ^; Ford/ Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. vii (1892), 



pp. 435 .t 437, ^. 



.Colobopsis leouardi, Emery, Ann. Mtis. Civ. Gen. xxvii (1889), 



p. 515, ^ . 



^ maj. Resembles ^ maj. of C. stricta, Jerd. : differs in being 



somewhat smaller, densely pubescent, and in the thorax not being 



emarginate at the meso - metanotal 

 suture. Black, covered with a thick 

 yellowish rusty pubescence which en- 

 tirely hides the sculpture. Head very 

 large, cylindrical, comparatively very 

 convex above, the posterior margin of 

 the truncated portion coarsely longi- 

 tudinally striate, the surface of the 

 truncation wrinkled and with a medial 

 vertical carina on the clypeus. Thorax 

 cylindrical, not sloping or emarginate ; 

 legs stout, short ; femora and tibiae 

 compressed ; abdomen massive. 

 ^ min. Differs only in being slighter and smaller and having 

 the head obtuse anteriorly, scarcely truncate. Forms intermediate 

 between ^ min. and ^ maj. exist. 



$ . Resembles the ^ maj. but is not so pubescent, and, as in 



Fig. 105. — Colohopda puhcscen^ 

 Head of ^ miu. 



