18 roHMiciD.i:. 



19. JEnictus fergiisoni, Fowl, Jour. Bomb. y. H. Soc xiii (1901), 



pp. 465 & 473, 9 . 



"^ . Keddish brown or piceous brown, the lateral yellow spots 

 on the head placed high up but not so high as in ^E. martini ; 

 the head, thorax and abdomen with scattered semi-erect pale 

 hairs, more dense on the antennae and legs. Head smooth, 

 shining, very broad posteriorly, as broad as in front; mandibles 

 broad, armed with minute teeth. Thorax very convex in front, 

 rounded above; the pronotum smooth aud shining, the emargination 

 in the middle of the thorax very distinct, wide and shallow ; the 

 metauotum delicately riigulose, tlie basal portion short, shorter 

 than in ^E. lawiceps, the apical portion vertical, bordered by a 

 carina above and on the sides ; legs robust, moderately long, the 

 femora strongly clavate, the tibite less so. Pedicel long, the nodes 

 rounded, smooth and shining ; abdomen oval, anteriorly at its 

 junction with the postei'ior node of the pedicel constricted into 

 a short neck. 



Length, ^ 3*5-4'5 mm. 



Hah. Travancore {Ferguson) : Western India, Surat ( Wroughton) ; 

 Sikhim (Wroughton); Burma {Hodgson). 



Dr. Forel has described three varieties of this species : var. 

 piltzi, AVestern India, \vhich has the emargination in the thorax 

 very marked and profound : var. Jwdgsoni, the Burmese form 

 from a hot moist locality, naturally darker, aud slightly larger ; 

 and var. montanus, from Sikhim, approaching nuich closer to 

 uE. loivicej^s, having the anterior node of the pedicel sculptured 

 and rugose. 



20. ^nictus lasviceps, Smith (Typhlatta), Jour. Linn. Soc. ii (1858), 



p. 79, ^ ; Forel, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xiii (1901), p. 465, ^ . 



§ . Black or dark castaneous brown, the mandibles, antennae, 

 and legs reddish brown ; head, thorax aud abdomen covered with 

 sparsely scattered long soft hairs. Head oval, highlj^ polished, 

 smooth aud shining, with lateral yellowish-white spots as in 

 uE. martini, but lower down on the side of the head not forming 

 tubercles ; mandibles obsoletely finely striate at base ; clypeus 

 carinate ; autennre massive, somewhat pilose ; anteunal hollows 

 deep and wide. Thorax : the pronotum highly polished, smooth 

 and shining, the meso- aud metauotum punctate-reticulate, opaque ; 

 legs smooth, rather long and stout. Pedicel with tlie 1st node 

 slightly reticulate-punctate, but shining ; 2nd node aud rest of 

 the abdomen highly polished aud shining. 



Length, ^ 3-5-3"8 mm. 



Hah. Assam {Smythics) ; Upper Bui'ma, Southern Shan States 

 {Thompson); Borneo; Celebes. 



21. JEnictuS binghami, Forel, Jour. Bond). X. H. Soc. xiii (1901), 



pp. 405 & 474. <^ . 



^ . Black ; the mandibles, antennae, legs, posterior node of 

 pedicel, base and underside of the abdomen castaneous red. 

 Head, thorax and abdomen covered \vith scattei'ed erect hairs, 



