574 Mr. G. C. Cliampion and Dr. E. Wasiiiann 07i 



Kliaiidesli example was attracted to liglit. See Wasmann, 

 infra. 



■\ 

 5. Termitopisthes parallelus^ sp. n". 



Hah. Delira Dun (Br. M. Cameron^ in Mus. Brit.: 

 9. V. 1921). 



A description of this new species is given by Wasmann^ 

 infra, and a figure of it is included on PI. VI. fig. 4. 



Cn.EToPiSTHES, Wcstwood (1847). 



1 . Chcetopisthes fulvus. 



S . Chcpfopisthes fulvus, Westw. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. iv. p. 242, 

 pi. xvii. figs. 6, G a-g (1847); Wasni. Ueatsche ent. Zeitschr. 1899, 

 p. 15G, and Wieu. eiit. Zeit. xxxvii. pp. 9, 16 (1918). 



(^ . Anterior margin of head bisinuate and triangularly- 

 produced in tlie middle; intermediate aud posterior tibiae 

 extremely broad, each angularly produced at the outer apical 

 angle (fig. 6/ of West wood). 



? . Anterior margin of head obliquely directed backward 



from the small median tooth; intermediate and posterior 



tibise not quite so broad, the outer a[)ical angle of the former 



obtuse, that of the posterior pair angularly extended. 



Length 3^-4 mm. (d" ? •) 



J/ab. Centkal India (Capt. Boys : types in Mus. Oxon., 



c? ?); "India bor.'^ {Mas. Brit.: S) ^ Nowatoli, Chota 

 Nagpur (JR. P. Cardoii, in Mus. Brit, and Mus. Wasmann : 



$ ), Mai was {sec. Wasmann). 



Five specimens are placed under C. fulvus in the Hope 

 Collection at Oxford : one c? and two ? $ of the insect 

 figured by Westwood, and two $ ? of T. ivasmaimi^ Schmidt. 

 The type of C. fulvus ( S ) fi'^^s the prothorax broader than long, 

 convex, the median sulcus narrow and very deep, and the 

 transverse basal groove strongly sinuate on each side above 

 the hind angles and connected laterally with the sinuate 

 deep marginal sulcus; the elytra each with five very deep 

 sulci extending from the base to near the tip, the dividing 

 costie rather broad and strongly convex throughout, and the 

 apices closely f ulvo-ciliate ; the anterior tibifie strongly 

 unidentate at tip ; and the tarsi rather slender, joint 1 of 

 the intermediate and posterior pairs about as long as 2-4 

 united. A (^ from Reiclie's Collection, acquired by the 

 British Museum in 1867, labelled " C. fulvus, Westw., 



