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Hub. Recorded so far within Indian limits only from Orissa in 

 Bengal (Taylor), but probably extends through Northern India to 

 Arabia and North-eastern Africa. Originally described from 

 Somnlilaud. 



3oS. Acantholepis opaca, Forel, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belyc, xxxvi (1892), 

 p. 42; Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. viii (1894), p. 413, ; ix (1895), 

 p. 458. 



g . Head reddish brown, mandibles and antenna pale testaceous, 

 thorax and node of pedicel reddish yellow, legs testaceous shaded 

 with fuscous, abdomen a beautiful purplish black. Head and 

 thorax finely and very closely punctured, opaque ; abdomen shining, 

 with in certain lights a metallic tint. Head, thorax and abdomen 

 covered with fairly abundant short semi-erect white hairs, and 

 an extremely minute sericeous pubescence only seen in certain 

 lights. Head without the mandibles nearly square, the occiput 

 slightly flattened and transverse ; mandibles rather large, acutely 

 dentate; clypeus large and very convex, medially vertically cari- 

 nate ; antennaB with the scape rather short, extending very little 

 beyond the top of the head. Thorax : the pronotum broad, nearly 

 as broad as the head, flat above, the mesonotum moderately 

 constricted, the meso-metanotal suture deep and wide ; the ineta- 

 notum short, its sides forming lateral acute tubercles. Node of 

 the pedicel proportionately somewhat thick and high, surmounted 

 by two parallel acute spines on the lateral angles above ; abdomen 

 large and massive, slightly depressed and acutely pointed at apex. 



Length, $ 2-2-2-5 mm. 



Hob. Western India : recorded from Kanara and Goa 

 (Aitken). 



350. Acantholepis pulchella, Forel, Ann. Soc. Ent. Beige, xxxvi 

 (1892), p. 43, . 



$ . Resembles A. opaca, Forel, but the thorax, especially the 

 pronotum, is narrower, and the region of the mesonotum is not so 



Fig. ( M.Acantholcpispul<.-hdla, 



strongly constricted. Head, thorax and abdomen dark purplish 

 bro\\n, lighter on the anterior portion of the thorax, while the 

 abdomen is dull black, with a light reddish-yellow spot above at 



