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Hah. Extends throughout our limits and into the Malayan sub- 

 region ; not recorded from the Punjab or the dry desert portions 

 of Central India. 



A very variable species. In many forms the mandibles, an- 

 tennae and legs are entirely reddish brown. In var. Iceviceps, 

 Smith, from Borneo, found also in India and Burma, the striae on 

 the head are more or less effaced ; var. opacinodis, Emery (Ann. 

 Mus. Civ. Gen. xxv (1887), p. 433), from Burma, has the node of 

 the pedicel sculptured and not smooth ; and var. sarasinorum, 

 Forel (I. c. xiii (1901), pp. 307 & 312), is considerably larger and 

 more robust than the typical form. This last is found in Ceylon, 

 and I have it also from Sikhim and Burma. 



71. Lobopelta hodgsoni, Ford, Jour. Bomb. N.H.Soc.x.in (1900), 



pp. 308 & 314, . 



$ . Black ; the mandibles, antennae and femora and tibiae of 

 the legs castaneous red, the tarsi of the legs and the apex of the 

 abdomen testaceous yellow; pilosity exceedingly sparse, more plen- 

 tiful and longer on the anterior coxse and beneath the abdomen. 

 Head elorigately oval, constricted posteriorly, where it is distinctly 

 narrower than in front ; the whole head, including the mandibles 

 and clypeus, finely longitudinally striate ; mandibles narrow, 

 broadening slightly towards the apex, and ending in a single acute 

 curved tooth, the rest of the masticatory and the inner margins 

 not dentate ; lobe of clypeus triangular, very much produced 

 anteriorly, and with a broad median vertical carina ; antennae 

 robust, pubescent, the scape remarkably long, passing beyond the 

 head by very nearly half its length ; 2nd joint of the flagellum 

 very little longer than the 1st. Thorax emarginate in the middle, 

 the pro-meso- and meso-metanotal sutures distinct ; the pronotum 

 coarsely longitudinally striate and wrinkled, the posterior half of 

 the basal face of the metanotum transversely and coarsely rugose ; 

 legs very long, robust. ]\ r ode of pedicel about as long as broad, 

 coarsely punctured, rugose ; abdomen very smooth, polished and 

 shining, the constriction between the basal two segments broad 

 and distinct. 



Length, 7 mm. 



Hah. Burma, Pegu Yoma (Allan) ; Tenasserim, Thaungyin 

 valley (Hodgson). 



72. Lobopelta wood-masoni, Ford, Jour. As. Soc. Bent/. lv (1886), 



pt. ii, p. 246, $ ; Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xiii (1900), p. 308, $ . 



" . Long and narrow, the legs and especially the antennae 

 very long. Head oval. Eyes large, flat, situated at the anterior 

 two-fifths of the head. The 2nd joint of the flagellum longer 

 than the 1st. Mandibles rather broad, striate ; their terminal 

 margin long, sharp, with a pointed tooth at the end and an obtuse 

 one at its posterior third. Clypeus very triangularly advanced, 

 nearly acuminate, strongly cariuate, longitudinally striate. Vertex 



