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SOME SOUTH INDIAN INSECTS. ETC. 



HYMENOPTERA. 

 FORMODiE. 



DORYLUS ORIENTALIS, Westwd. 

 Dorylus orientalis, Westwd., P.Z.S. (1835), 72; Bingham, Faun. 

 Ind. Hym., II, 4-6, ff. 6, 7 ; Lefroy, End. Ins. Pests, p. 231. f. 276, Ent. 

 Mem. Dept. Agri., [nd., I, 128. !'. 12. In.l. Ins. Life, p. 227, f. 130; 

 Green, Perad. Circ. III. No. 22, p. 292. 



I ig. 111. — Dorylus orientalis, male and worker. (Original.) 

 Distribution — Throughout Southern India. 

 Lifehistory.—'No\ known. 



FoodplantS. Coconut seedlings, groundnut (roots). 



Status. Rather doubtful. Occasionally a pest, attacking grow- 

 ing plants; has been noticed to attack young coco-palms in 

 Southern India and in Ceylon to perforate the pods of groundnuts 

 and consume the contents. Specimens in the Coimbatore collection 

 also are labelled as " attacking roots of groundnut." Other speci- 

 mens were found at roots of coffee but no damage seemed to have 

 been done. Has also been found damaging sugarcane. 



Control. — ? 



Remarks. The workers are very similar in habits and appear- 

 ance tO some termites, but the males (which often come in to light 

 at night) are quite different. 



SOLENOPSIS GEM IN ATA, Kb. 



Atta geminata, Fabr., Syst. Piez., i>. 423 (1804). 

 Solenopsis geminata, Bingham. Faun. bid. Hym., II, 158 --159. f. 04 ; 

 Lefroy, Ind. Ins. Life, p. 229. 



Fig. 1 12. — Solenopsis geminata, worker. The smaller figure shows the 



nit in al -i/< . 



