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FOBM1CID.T. 



apical portion obliquely truncate ; legs stout, posterior tibiae very 

 slightly compressed. Node of pedicel bluntly conical ; abdomen 

 narrow, elongate. 



min. Similar, smaller ; head com- 

 paratively broader and not so cylin- 

 drical, anteriorly more obtuse than 

 truncate ; head and thorax more 

 pubescent. 



$ . Similar to the maj. ; head 

 not so large or so sharply truncate ; 

 truncated portion not so depressed. 



Length, $ maj. 1112; min. 9- 

 9-5 ; $ 12-5 mm. 

 Hob. Malabar (Jerdon) ; Burma ; extending to Borneo. 

 It is with some doubt that I have described as C. stricta 

 specimens of a Colobopsis in the British Museum Collection from 

 India, Burma, and Borneo, labelled as such by the late Mr. F. 

 Smith. Jerdon's original description is quite inadequate for 

 certain identification ; he gives the metanotum as bidentate 

 posteriorly (" post-thorax in the form of a rounded narrow plat- 

 form ending in two points "). None of the specimens in the British 

 Museum labelled C. stricta have the metanotum bidentate, other- 

 wise, however, they answer very well to Jerdon's description so 

 far as this goes. 



Fig. 104. Colobopsis stricta, 



Coloh 



395. Colobopsis pubescens, Mayr, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xii 

 (1862), p. 691, $ $; Forel, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. vii (1892), 



p. 435 & 437, $ . 



obopsis leonardi, Emery, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xxvii (1889), 

 p. 515, g . 



$ maj. Resembles maj. of C. stricta, Jerd. : differs in being 

 somewhat smaller, densely pubescent, and in the thorax not being 

 emarginate at the meso - metanotal 

 suture. Black, covered with a thick 

 yellowish rusty pubescence which en- 

 tirely bides the sculpture. Head very 

 large, cylindrical, comparatively very 

 convex above, the posterior margin of 

 the truncated portion coarsely longi- 

 tudinally striate, the surface of the 

 truncation wrinkled and with a medial 

 vertical carina on the clypeus. Thorax 

 cylindrical, not sloping or emarginate ; 

 legs stout, short; femora and tibi 

 compressed ; abdomen massive. 

 $ min. Differs only in being slighter and smaller and having 

 the head obtuse anteriorly, scarcely truncate. Forms intermediate 

 between $ min. and $ maj. exist. 



$ . Eesembles the $ maj. but is not so pubescent, and, as in 



Fig. 105. Colobopsis pubescens. 

 Head of min. 



