.T:xici'rs. 



r 



with the sides strongly curved and rounded, the posterior margin 

 transverse ; abdomen about as long as the head, thorax and 

 pedicel united, cylindrical, slightly enlarged towards the apex, 

 and cm'ved downwards ; pygidium convex, entire. 



^ . Reddish yellow, darkest on the head, smooth and shining, 

 with a few scattered erect pale hairs on the thorax and abdomen, 

 hairs on the legs a little more dense and oblique, almost recum- 

 bent. Head broadly oval, very convex in front ; mandibles 

 triangular, with a toothed masticatory margin. Tliorax compara- 

 tively long ; pronotum broad and \evy con\ex; metanotum slightly 

 compressed, the apical portion nearly vertical, bordered by a fine 

 carina : legs stout, long : femora and tibife cylindrical, the latter 

 attenuate at base, gradually clavate towards the apex. Nodes of 

 pedicel from above roundly oval, rather distant one from the other; 

 abdomen broad, convex, not depressed. 



Leyir/th, (J o*3-5"5 ; ^ 2*5 mm. 



Hah. Western and Central India (Gleadoiv, Bethara and Wrourjli- 

 ton) ; Travancore {Ferguson). 



A variety slightly larger and more stoutly built, with a shorter 

 head and of a deeper yellow-red colour, procured at Dharmsala 

 in the Punjab, has been separated by Dr. Forel as var. sagei. 



red, the lateral 

 reddish vellow ; 



18. JEnictus martini, Forel. Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xiii (1901), pp. 464 

 & 47:3, ? . 



g . Head, thorax, pedicel and abdomen dark castaneous brown, 

 almost black in parts ; mandibles, antennae and legs castaneous 

 spots on the head yellowish white, sometimes 

 pubescence almost wanting ; head, thorax and 

 abdomen with a few scattered 

 erect hairs, the antennte and legs 

 densely hairy. Head somewhat 

 longer than broad and broader 

 in front than posteriorly, man- 

 dibles rather narrow, the apical 

 tooth acute and curved. Thorax 

 with the pronotum rounded and 

 convex, narrower than the head : 

 the metanotum slightly com- 

 pressed, rounded above, deli- 

 cately rugulose ; legs with the 

 femora incrassate in the middle, 

 the tibiae cylindrical, slightly 

 Nodes of the pedicel rounded, 

 , smooth, highly polished and 



Fig. l6.—JEnicius martini, g . 



thickening towards the apex, 

 convex ; abdomen broadly oval 

 shining. 



Length, g 3-3"5 mm. 



Hah. Upper Burma, Maymyo, 3000 ft. {Bingliam) ; Pegu 

 Toma {Allan) ; Tenasserim {Hodgson) ; extending to the Malay 

 Peninsula. 



TOL. II. f 



