Covylhoclcrini from Brit/sJi India. 571 



Throe specimens captured 1)y ^Fr. Bell '*at lij^ht" in 190.'5, 

 one of tliein w ith a lari^cr and broader head than the others, 

 presumably (^ , like the type, agree \\ell with Wasmanii's 

 description and figure of S. braininiis. The prothorax in this 

 insect has two narrow, conical, pointed prominences at the 

 base, separated by a short deep sulcus and limited externally 

 by a sinuous excavation, and the transverse basal groove 

 interrupted in the middle by a subtriangular prominence 

 extending backw^ard from between the conical tubercles. 

 The elytra are deeply transversely depressed below the base, 

 and have two oblique, posteriorly- widened, convex costae on 

 the inner [)ortion of the disc (the inner one sutural), separated 

 by broad deep sulci, the sutural ridge at the base and the 

 humeri raised and strongly tuberculiform ; the lateral 

 portions and apex are almost smooth. The anterior tibiae 

 are unidentate at the apex; the others are moderately 

 broad and arcuately dilated at the base within. The basal 

 joint of each tarsus is small. The type (length 2'6 mm.) 

 was found in a nest of Odontotennes obesus. Paracorijtho- 

 derus marskaUi, Brauns (1900), from the Orange Free State, 

 found in nests of Odontotennes transvaalensis^ Sjost. 

 (^=Te?'mes tubicola, Wasm.), is an allied larger insect^ with 

 four anteriorly-evanescent, oblique, narrow sulci on the 

 elytra, separated by rather broad convex interspaces^ longer 

 legs, &c. 



Termitopisthes, Wasmann (1918). 



1. Terniitopisthes schmidti, sp. n. 



Elongate, convex, narrow, shining, ferruginous, clothed 

 with scattered, sliort, fine, erect hairs, the basal groove of 

 the prothorax fulvo-tomentose behind ; very sparsely, finely, 

 the transversely-depressed anterior portion of the head 

 coarsely punctate. Prothorax scarcely as long as broad, 

 with an anteriorly-abbreviaced, deep median sulcus, which is 

 gradually widened and still more deeply impressed towards 

 the base, the convex space on either side of it produced 

 behind into two subconical, baekwardly-projecting promi- 

 nences, which are limited externally by a short, very deep, 

 sinuous sulcus, the basal groove sinuate laterally and extend- 

 ing forward along the margin to near the obtuse anterior 

 angles, the thickened lateral margin dilated at about the 

 middle, in front of the ear-like projection arising from near 

 the hind angles. Elytra about as wide as the prothorax ; 

 each with four deep, posteriorly-abbreviated sulci, the 

 juxta-sutural groove widening lurwurds, the dividing eostie 



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