wheeler: CHINESE ANTS. 541 



Described from eighteen specimens taken at Soochow by Professor 

 N. Gist Gee. 



Resembling L. lindgrceni Forel of Assam and Burma in color, but 

 the head in this species, judging from a cotype received from Pro- 

 fessor Forel, is decidedly smaller and narrower behind, the eyes are 

 much more convex, the antennal scapes extend nearly I their length 

 beyond the posterior border of the head, the petiolar node is lower 

 and thicker, and the hairs and pubescence are longer and less ap- 

 pressed, especially on the tibiae and antennal scapes. On these parts, 

 in fact, the hairs are abundant and suberect. The pubescence on the 

 gaster seems to be somewhat sparser than in sinense and seems not to 

 converge or diverge but to be directed uniformly backward on all the 

 segments. The specimen is rather greasy, however, so that I am in 

 doubt in regard to this character. Forel makes no statement con- 

 cerning the arrangement of the gastric pubescence. The South 

 Em-opean L. microccphalum Panzer is more like sinense in the size of 

 the head, but it is not so broad and its anterior angles are conspic- 

 uously swollen, the thorax is more convex and arcuate in profile, the 

 petiole is more acuminate above, and though the pubescence on the 

 gaster is similar in texture and arrangement, the erect hairs on the 

 head and thorax are longer and more abundant. The color of the 

 body is very different. 



31. LiOMETOPUM SINENSE var. SERiCATUM, var. nov. 



Worker. Differing from the tyjjical sinense in having somewhat larger eyes 

 and the anterior angles of the head more protuberant, in the less reddish and 

 more fuscous tint of the body and in the pubescence, which is much finer and 

 denser, especially on the gaster so that the surface is completely concealed. 

 The pubescence is also more silky and more yellowish. 



Numerous workers from Mokanshan (t;\pe-locality), Foochow and 

 Soochow, and a single defective female from Foochow (Gee). 



32. Technomyrmex modiglianii Emery subsp. elatior Forel. 



A single worker from Dei Chow, East River (Muir). Previously 

 known from Upper Burma and the Shan States. 



33. Tapinoma melanocephalum (Fabricius). 



A single worker from Macao (Muir). A well-known tropicopolitan 

 species. 



