20 



roRMiciD.i:. 



legs long, robust ; femora gradually clavate from base to apex, but 

 not as iu jE. hiw/Jiami, yE. fnyi'soni and others, constricted near 

 the apex. Nodes of pedit-el slightly longer than broad, coarsely 

 sculptured and opaque; abdomen highly polished, smooth and 



Fig. 18, — JEnictns aifkcni, ^. 



shining, except at base where it is delicately rugulose and with a 

 few large shallop- punctures. 



Lcwjth, ^ ■^■o-b-'d mu). 



Hah. "Western India, Pooua {Wrougliton)., Kaiiara {Aitl<:en), 

 Travaucore (Ferguson). 



A very distinct species. 



23. JEnictus pachycerus, Smith (Eciton), Cat. vi (l.^oS), p. 153, ^ . 

 Typblattabeugaleusis, ilfftj/r, 77';7i. zool.-hot. Ges. IVten, xxviii (1878), 



p. 068, 9 . ^ 

 -Quietus bengalensis, Forel, Jour. Bomb. X. H. Sue. xiii (1901), 

 pp. 465 & 476, $ . 



^ . Castaueous red, the mandibles, antenna; and legs very little 

 if at all lighter in colour. Head, thorax and abdomen with a few 

 scattered erect hairs ; antennie and legs slightly more pubescent. 

 Head broadly oval, as broad posteriorly as in front, very deUcately 

 rugulose, subopaque or only slightly shining iu certain lights. 



Fig. 10. — JEiiicfits pttch/cenis, ^ , 



Thorax rather broad, anteriorly con\ex, the pronotum delicately 

 rugulose like the head, the euiargination at the meso-metanotal 

 suture -sery shallow and wide ; metanotum more densely rugulose, 

 opaque, the colour sensibly darkening on the sides, abo\e broadly 

 rounded, the apical portion steejjly oblique, but not vertical, 



