LOBOPELTA. 57 



6 4 . Head, thorax and abdomen with- 

 out any metallic reflection. 

 '. Antennae remarkably long, 2nd 

 joint of flagellum much longer 



than 3rd L. assamensis, p. 70. 



b*. Antennae comparatively short ; 

 2nd and 3rd joints of flagellum 

 subequal. 



/ ". Head without the clypeus 



short, only a little longer 

 than broad ; eyes somewhat 

 anterior, below middle line 



of head L. peur/ueti, p. 71. 



l'\ Head without the clypeus 

 much longer than broad ; 

 eyes placed about middle 

 line of head L. watsoni, p. 72. 



63, Lobopelta ocellifera, Roger, Bert. ent. Zeit. v (1861), p. 13, ; 



Fowl, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xiii (1900), pp. 305 & 309, rf . 

 Lobopelta distinguenda, var. andrei, Emery, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 

 xxv (1887), p. 431, , 



. Dark castaneous brown, smooth, polished and shining, with 

 a very few scattered small punctures on the head ; head, thorax 

 and abdomen covered with fairly abundant long erect pilosity; 



Fig. 32. Lobopelta ocellifera, . 



pubescence wanting.- Head broad, rectangular, as broad poste- 

 riorly as in front ; mandibles robust, broad, finely longitudinally 

 striate, armed at the apex with four unequal teeth, and denticulate 

 along the inner margins ; clypeus narrow, transverse, finely longi- 

 tudinally striate at the sides, the medial lobe raised and rounded 

 anteriorly ; autennal cariuac short, laminate, very close together ; 

 antennae stout, pubescent, the scape just passing the top of the 

 head, the 1st joint of the flagellum slightly longer than the 2nd. 

 Thorax slightly narrower than the head, viewed from the side 

 emarginate above, the pro-meso- and meso-rnetanotal sutures deeply 

 marked ; metanotum compressed in front, broadening posteriorly, 

 apical portion obliquely truncate, flat, smooth, not striate ; legs 

 long and stout. Node of pedicel convex in front, flat posteriorly, 

 the upper margin narrow, rounded ; abdomen massive, the poste- 

 rior margins of the segments narrowly testaceous. 



