12 rORMICIDiE. 



legs deep shining yellow ; the head in front, the thorax, pedicel 

 and abdomen covered with dense, very short, erect, yellow hairs. 

 Head not quite twice as broad as long ; the cheeks behind the 

 eyes not constricted, rounded and well developed ; the mandibles 

 flat and proportionately broader, though not so long as in 

 jE. p'am/is, the tooth on the inner side at base distinct and 

 acute. Thorax very gibbous in front, n)ore so than in any other 

 known Indian species; the scutelliim broad and rounded pos- 

 teriorly ; legs with the femora and tibia? gradually thickening 

 from base to apex. The pedicel flat or slightly convex in the 

 middle ; abdomen cylindrical, not enlarged towards the apex nor 

 curved downwards ; pygidium convex, shining, punctured at base, 

 its apical margin rounded, entire ; hypopygium broad, posteriorly 

 widely emarginate. 



Length, (S 5 mm. 



Hab. Ceylon (Green). 



It is possible this may be the c? of yE. ceylonkus, Mayr. 



11. .ffinictus shuckardi, FurcJ, Jour. Bomb. N. H. >Suc. xiii (1901), 



pp 467 &471, c?. 



(^ . Head jet-black, smooth and shining ; mandibles, antennse, 

 thorax, legs, pedicel and abdomen ochraceous brown, the abdo- 

 minal segments above darker in the 

 middle : ]mbescence short, fine, fairly 

 dense and erect, of a brownish-yellow 

 colour. Head concave in front ; the 

 cheeks behind the ej'es fairly well deve- 

 loped, not flat and constricted as in 

 ^. amhifjmis ; mandibles flat, strongly 

 curved, somewhat short and not very 

 acute at apex. Thorax with the meso- 

 notum strongly convex, the scutellum 

 broad and rounded posteriorly, the meta- 

 !""'§;■ H>. notum \ertical without any basal portion ; 



J<:v,utu>^ shuckardi, J. j^^^ ^^.-^^^ ^^^^ femora and tibia clavate, 



the latter not quite so swollen at apex as in yE. greeni. Pedicel 

 flat, its upper surface spmicylindrical, the sides only slightly raised, 

 the apex transverse ; abdomen cylindrical, only very slightly 

 larger towards the apex; the pygidium narrow, transverse, slightly 

 convex, verv highly polished and shining, its posterior margin 

 entire : hypopygium flat, its posterior margin transverse. 



Length, J 5-() mm. 



Hah. Bengal (i?o/A»f7/) ; Burma; Tenassei'im (5t?i^7ia}H). 



12. .ffinictus clavatus, Forel, Jour. Bomb. N. II. Soc. xiii (1901), 



pp. 407 & 471. 



J, Head dark castaneous brown, almost black; thorax and 

 abdomen ochraceous ; mandibles, antennae and legs paler yellow. 

 Head, thorax and abdomen covered with a fairly abundant, very 



