10 FORMICID.T. 



7. iEnictus westwoodi, Ford, Jour. Bomb. N. 11. Soc. xiii (1901), 



pp. 407 .t 46U. 



d" . Head jet-black and shining posteriorly ; the front, the base 

 of the mandibles, and the thorax brownish yellow ; the antenure, 

 legs and abdomen dull pale yellow. Head constricted behind the 

 eyes as in -/s. amhhjuus, and devoid of pubescence posteriorly, 

 the front covered with long pale yellow hairs ; mandibles long, 

 curved, acute at apex; scape of the antennie slightly davate ; 

 flagellum a little thicker in the middle than at base and apex. 

 Thorax above not so convex as in yE. ainbhiuus; the scutellum 

 prominent, its posterior lateral angles slightly produced ; meta- 

 notum with a very short, slightly oblique, but distinct basal portion ; 

 legs short, with the femora and tibia> cylindrical ; the thorax and 

 legs covered with a short, fine, yellowish-\\hite pubescence. Node 

 of the pedicel a little narrower at base than at apex, deeply 

 grooved or concave above, carinate beneath ; abdomen very massive, 

 covered Avith a fairly dense, short, fine yellowish-white pubescence; 

 the pygidium very convex, its base smooth and shining. 



Lenr/tJi, ^ 9-10 mm. 



Hah. Western India {Wrowjhton). 



Dr. Forel has described this as a mere variety of ^E. amhiguus, 

 but it seems to me to differ structui'ally. 



8. .ffinictus pubescens. Smith, Cat. vii (1850), p. 10 ; Forel, Jour. 



Bomh. y. H. Soc. xiii (1901), p. 469. 



(S . " Length 'Sk lines (about 7'o millim.). Eufo-testaceous, 

 densely clothed with pale pubescence : the head black and shining, 

 the mandibles and autennse rufo-testaceous ; the ocelli in a curve 

 on the vertex and situated on the side of a central elevation ; the 

 mandibles long and curved. The thorax obscure ferruginous ; 

 wings hyaline and iridescent, the nei'vures and stigma brown. 

 Abdomen densely clothed with long silky decumbent pubescence ; 

 the peduncle deeply concave above and channeled in the middle, 

 slightly rounded at the sides ; the peduncle of the same width as 

 the 2nd segment, the terminal segment obtuse. 



" Hah. Northern India." {Smith.) 



I have quoted in full Mr. Smith's original description, as the 

 species is unknown to me except from the mutilated type in the 

 Bi-itish Museum, which is minus the pedicel and abdomen. 



Another doubtful species is ^. certus, described by Westwood 

 without locality (Arcan. Entom. i, 2 (1842), p. 79). The type is 

 in the British Museum, but is in very bad condition. Dalla Torre, 

 in his Catalogue of the Forraicida, gives the habitat of this species 

 as India ; but on what authority I do not know. I give a brief 

 description : — 



yEnictna certus, AVestw. 

 f'\ S • Closely resembles ^E. arahigans. Shuck., but is smaller and 

 lighter in colour. Head black ; thorax, legs and abdomen honey- 



