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the pilosity of the aiitennte and legs a little more dense, the hairs 

 oblique. Head highly polished, smooth and shining, oval, the 

 occipital margin narrow, the occiptal lateral angles mucli rounded 

 and convex, the lateral yellowish-white spot not so long as in 

 u^. martini. Thorax with the pronotuui very convex, delicately 

 transversely sculptured and shining ; the metanotum compressed, 

 longitudinally striate, rugose and opaque, the basal portion long, the 

 apical portion nearly vertical laterally, above distinctly margined ; 

 legs long and robust, femora and tibitc as in ^E. martini. Pedicel 



Fig. 17. — JEnictiis hinghami, ^ . 



long, the anterior node rugose and opaque, the posterior smooth 

 and shining, seen from the side the nodes are roundly conical 

 and SLibequal ; abdomen broadly oval, constricted at base into a 

 short neck. 



Length, ^ 4-5 mm. 



Hah. Assam {Long) ; Burma ; Tenasserim (Pea, Bingham, Hodg- 

 son); probably extending throughout the Malayan subregion, as 

 I have from Borneo specimens indistinguishable from Burmese 

 examples. 



22. JEnictus aitkeni, Fon-l, Jour. Bomb. X. H. Soc. xiii (1901), pp.465 

 & 475, $ . 



^ . Head, thorax and pedicel reddish brown, darkening to deep 

 castaneous brown, almost black on the abdomen ; mandibles, 

 antennae and legs a li2;hter red-brown ; pilosity sparse, confined to 

 a few long erect reddish liairs, slightly more abundant on the 

 antennae and legs. Head oval, suBopaque, delicately rugulose ; 

 mandibles broad, armed with distinct teeth on the masticatory 

 margin. Thorax elongate ; pronotum not very broad, convex, 

 rugulose and subopaque like the head, but in addition with longi- 

 tudinally elongate wrinkles, that are continued more abundantly 

 on the posterior portion of the thorax, which latter is more closely 

 sculptured and rugose ; metanotum compressed, the emarginatiou 

 at the meso-metanotal suture slight, merely indicated ; apical 

 portion of metanotum vertical, separated from the basal portion 

 by a very distinct carina which is remarkably prominent above ; 



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