LACTISTES. 



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155. Lactistes vicinus, Sign. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) i, p. 50, t. 2, f. 



(1881). 



Closely allied to the preceding species (L. rastellus), but differing 

 from it in the mucli shorter, broader, and rounded apex of the 

 tibiae : the inner margin is without a tuberosity, whilst the outer 

 margin possesses five or six dental spines. Head rounded, emar- 

 ginate in front ; pronotum punctured, the margins ciliated ; the 

 odoriferous aperture more sinuous anteriorly and posteriorly, 

 terminating in a lobe more angularly rounded, with a small 

 tooth at the emai'gination ; third joint of the antennae oval, as 

 long as the second but stouter, fourth and fifth joints longest and 

 equal. 



Length 5 7:f ; max. breadth 3^ millim. 



Nab. Bombay (Leith). 



156. Lactistes truncato-serratus, Si(/n. Ann. Sue. Eat. Fr. (6) i, p. 51, 



t. 2, f. 10(1881). 



Allied to the preceding species in form and coloration, but, 

 according to ISignoret, differing in the dilated prolongation of the 





Ficr. 43. — Lacf/sfcs fruncato-serratua. 



posterior tibiae, which are short and possess at the last spine on the 

 outer margin two emarginations, which form three rounded teeth. 

 (Signoret must evidently have been here describing the anterior 

 and not the posterior tibiae.) Head rounded, emarginate in front, 

 the central lobe shorter than the lateral lobes but free, the lateral 

 lobes not meeting at apices ; pronotum more punctate, with two 

 irregular levigate spaces on the anterior disk ; scutellum less 

 densely punctate ; corium without marginal piliferous points ; 

 abdomen punctured on the marginal areas, also punctured on the 

 shining lateral areas of the mesosternum, and on the metasternum 



