T4 Records of the Indian Museum. [Voi,. X, 1914.] 



I have seen it in South African specimens. As Hirst rightly 

 observes, the prominence of the anterior side of the palpal tro- 

 chanter is much smaller in F. affinis than in F. mucronata , but 

 there are strictly speaking , no real ' ' prominences on the anterior 

 side of the base of the femur" (Hirst) in either of the species, 

 though the corner is perhaps a little more pronounced in F. 

 mucronata than in F. affinis. ""Die Vertiefung" (TuUgren) or 

 " the gap" (Hirst) between the coxa of the II pair of legs is in the 

 cf entirely and in the 2 almost entirely filled up by a promin- 

 ence from the posterior side of the coxae of the I pair. There is 

 one other character which may be used to distinguish the two 

 species: the first tergite, which is very short, has in each antero- 

 lateral corner a rather large thorn-like projection, pointing for- 

 wards in F. mucronata] this projection is not present in F. affinis. 

 Hirst says: " These differences are, perhaps, not important 

 enough to be regarded as of specific value, and it is possible that 

 this form should be regarded as a local variety of F. mucronata." 

 This cannot well be so any longer, the species having also been 

 taken in India, but the two species have very much in common 

 and have no very clear distinguishing characters, and it may be 

 that forms of transition should be found. 



Ideobisium (Ideoblothrus) sp. 



India. Malawany, near Bombay, 1 jun., io-vii-1912, M. No. -ff *■ 



The specimen is very young and of small size (o"8 mm. long). 

 The animal belongs to no species of the subgenus Ideoblothrus 

 hitherto described, but as it is so immature and not well preserved, 

 I do not wish to describe it as a new species. It is, however, the 

 first specimen of this subgenus found on the continent of Southern 

 Asia; from the whole south-eastern region of Asia only one 

 species of Ideoblothrus is hitherto known, I deobisium {Ideoblothrus) 

 bipectinatum, Daday, originally described from New Guinea, and 

 later recorded from the Bismarck- Archipelago (EUingsen) ; but this 

 species has its palps quite different from the Indian specimen. 

 The species from New Guinea, too, is of small size. The galea of 

 the Indian specimen is small and simple. 



At all events this capture proves that the Indian Continent is 

 inhabited by an Ideoblothrus. 



