346 FOEMICID^E. 



suture. The truncation of the clypeus slight, not submargined." 

 (Forel.) 



Length, $ 10 mm. 



Hal). Bengal, Barrackpore (Eothney}, probably extending through 

 Assam, Burma and Tenasserim to the Malay peninsula and islands. 

 From Singapore var. siggii, Forel, has been described. Of C. an- 

 gustata I have only seen the 5. The maj. and $ min. are 

 unknown to me. 



398. Colobopsis rothneyi, Forel, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. vii (1893), 



p. 435, $. 



$ maj. Short, broad, with the head comparatively very massive 

 and large. Head and thorax testaceous brown ; abdomen black, 

 shining, the posterior margins of the segments yellowish white. 

 Head cylindrical, the truncated portion concave ; clypeus medially 

 vertically carinate, the front behind the margin of the truncation 

 coarsely reticulate-punctate. Thorax broad, comparatively broader 

 than in the other Indian species ; pro-meso- and meso-metanotal 

 sutures distinct, the thorax not emarginate at the latter. Node 

 of pedicel transverse ; abdomen massive. 



$ . Larger relatively to the g maj. than in other Indian 

 species ; head more elongate than in the $ maj. ; metanotum 

 more convex. 



min. Unknown to me. 



Length, maj. 4 ; $ 7 mm. 



Hab. Bengal, Orissa (Taylor), Barrackpore (Roihney}. 



This species closely resembles C. truncata, Spinola, of Europe. 

 The type is in Mr. Rothney's collection. 



399. Colobopsis saundersi, Emery, Aim. Mus. Civ. Gen. xxvii (1889), 



p. 516, ; Forel, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. vii (1893), pp. 435 & 

 438,$$. 



$ min. Bed, the legs and a subapical transverse line on the 

 margins of the abdominal segments fuscous; pubescence very 

 short and sparse, mixed with a few 

 erect pale hairs on the front of the 

 head and at the apex of the abdomen. 

 Head anteriorly subtruncate ; mandibles 

 rather narrow, clypeus with a distinct 

 but not prominent medial vertical 

 Fie 10" ^*^~~^ carina ; antennal carinse short, wide 

 Colof/opsis saundersi, min. apart. Thorax viewed from the side 

 Head and thorax. with a shallow wide sulcation in the 



middle, obliquely truncate posteriorly ; 



legs of moderate length, fairly densely clothed with short oblique 

 whitish hairs. Node of pedicel low, conical, convex anteriorly, some- 

 what flat posteriorly ; abdomen oval, about as long as the thorax. 

 mfij. The head is greatly enlarged in front, strongly trun- 

 cated and with a very acute margin, which is also the case with 



