402 



Deutsch. Ent. Zeitschr. 1910. 



whilst the femur has become very small. I may remember here 

 that in the foregoing species the femur has vanished, whilst the 

 tibia and tarsus are still free. 



6. Alloptes gambettae (Oudms.). (Fig. 23 — 27.) 

 1904, Sept. 1. Alloptes gambettae nov. sp. Oudemans in Ent. Ber., 



V. 1. no. 19. p. 172. ?. 

 1904, Nov. 1. All. gamb. Oudms. in idem. no. 20. p. 195. cf. 



Male (Fig. 23). Length 320 (.i., greatest width 122 f.i. — 

 C 1 u r yellow - brown. — S h a p e like that of All. crassipes^ 

 but slightly more elongate. — Texture smooth in the shields, 

 finely wrinkled in the soft parts. 



Dorsal side (Fig. 23). The anterior dorsal 

 shield is much widened behind the trochanter II 



and on these wings are planted 

 the anterior long hairs ; so it 

 has two oblique lateral edges, 

 its posterior edge is slightly 

 concave. The posterior shield 

 ist widest between trochanters 

 III and IV so that it has two 

 so-called wings behind the 

 posterior lateral shields. Post- 

 eriorly it possesses a well 

 chitinized medial internal bar 

 (epimerite) , whichis one 

 oftheproofs that the 

 abdomen originally was 

 deeply cleft, and after- 

 war ds again joined. The 

 anterior lateral shields extend 

 far more backward than the 

 anterior dorsal shield ; they 

 are triangulär in shape. The 

 posterior lateral shields are 

 wedged between the anterior 

 dorsal shield , and simulate a 

 the anterior dorsal shield the 

 the anterior shield itself) are 

 A little inside of these hairs 

 On the posterior dorsal shield 

 minute hairs : one pair close 

 to the anterior edge and close together ; a second pair more 



I 



Fig. 23—25. 

 Alloptes gambettae Oudms. cf. 



lateral shield and the posterior 

 CQxa of leg III. — Hairs: On 

 pair of long hairs (as long as 

 planted behind the trochanteres II 

 there is a pair of minute hairs. 

 we first meet with the following 



