36 



40. Mystrmm Camilla, Emery, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xxvii (1889), 

 p. 491, 9 $, pi. 10, %?. 1-3. 



g . Eeddish yellow ; the whole insect, even on the mandibles, 

 antennae and legs, very closely and 

 somewhat coarsely punctured, ru- 

 gose and granulate ; pilosity very 

 short, rather sparse, in no way 

 hiding the sculpture ; head slightly 

 wider in front than posteriorly, 

 the sides straight from the base of 

 the mandibles for about two-thirds 

 of their length, then a little bent 

 inwards towards the posterior 

 lateral angles ; mandibles slightly 

 twisted, above longitudinally 

 grooved. Tor the rest, the 

 characters as in the genus. 



$ . Closely resembles the $ ; 

 larger and more massive; sculp- 

 ture of the head and thorax, colour 

 and pilosity as in the $ , the apical 

 margin of the 1st, 3rd and 4th 

 abdominal segments above smooth, 

 slightly shining. For the rest, the 

 characters as given for the genus. 



Length, $ 3-3-4-5 ; $ nearly 7 mm. 



Hob. Recorded only from Upper Burma {Pea). 



Fig. 25.Myst 



Genus STIGMATOMMA. 



StigmatoHima, Roger, Berl. ent. Zcit. iii (1859), p. 250, $ . 

 Amblvopone, Forel (nee Erichs.), Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xiii (1901), 

 pp. 52 & 55, $. 



Type, S. denticulatum, Roger, from Europe. 



Range. Both hemispheres. 



$ . Head without the mandibles rectangular ; thorax and abdo- 

 men more or less cylindrical in form ; mandibles elongate, narrow, 

 pointed and slightly curved at apex, armed on the inner side with 

 a double row of acute teeth ; eyes moderate or minute, placed at 

 the sides on the upper half of the head ; antenna 12-jointed, 

 filiform, the apex only slightly incrassate. Thorax narrower than 

 the head, the pro-mesonotal suture well marked, the thorax 

 strongly constricted at this point and divided into two almost 

 equal halves ; meso-metanotal suture not distinct ; metanotuui 

 obliquely truncate posteriorly, the basal portion passing into the 

 apical portion by a more or less rounded curve, the apical face 

 of the metanotum. broadened, the sides submargiued ; legs short, 

 robust, the tibire of the posterior legs with two calcaria. Pedicel 

 one-jointed, cubical, attached to the abdomen by the whole of its 



