22 ronMiciD.T: 



legs very little, if at all, paler. Head, thorax and abdomen 

 sparsely, antenna? and legs densely pilose, the hairs oblique. Head 

 smooth, shining, rectangular, longer than broad, the sides very 

 slightly convex; mandibles triangular, with broad toothed mastica- 

 tory margin ; antennae massive but long, not short as in yE. hrevi- 

 eornis. Thorax anteriorly rounded, smooth and shining, above 

 convex, level, with the usual wide depression at the meso-metanotal 

 suture obsolete; metanotum sculptured, opaque, striate on the 

 sides, passing witli a rounded slope uninterrupted by a carina to 

 the apex ; legs long, femora clavate. Nodes of pedicel rounded 

 abo\e, punctured, slightly subopaque ; abdomen oval, very smooth 

 and shining. 



Lenr/th, ^ 3-3*5 mm. 



Hah. "Western India, Poona (Wroughion). 



26. .ffinictus peguensis, Emenj, yhm. Mus. Civ. Gen. xxxiv (1894), 



p. 452, ^ ; Ford, Join: Bomb. N. H. Soc. xiii (1901), p. 466, ^ . 



^ . Closely allied to and resembling ^. cej/Jonicvs, Mayr, but 

 somewhat ligliter in colour and slighter in ])uild, the metanotum 

 is less rugosely sculptured, and the nodes of the pedicel are not 

 punctured nor opaque. Head rectangular, very broad posteriorly, 

 smooth and shining. Thorax anteriorly polished and shining ; 

 metanotum finely and closely punctured, opaque not striate ; legs 

 as in yE. cej/hnicus, long, with the femora stronglj' clavate. Abdo- 

 men oval, polished and shining. 



Leii</fh, ^ ^-3 mm. 



Bab. Burma (Fea) : Tenasserim (Binrjham). 



27. .ffinictus ceylonicus, Mat/r (Tvphlatta), Sitzmu/sh. Akad. Wiss. 



Wien, liii. 1 Ahth. (1866), p. 505, ^ ; Forel, Jour. Bomb. N. H. 

 Soc. xiii (1901), pp. 466 & 477, ^ . 



^ . Resembles JE. punensis, but is slightly darker in colour on 

 the thorax and lighter on the abdomen. Yellowish or brownish 

 red : pilosity sparse on head, thorax and abdomen, fairly abundant 

 and erect on the antenna? and legs. Head shorter proportionately 

 and wider than in ^F. pmiensis, smooth and shining ; mandibles 

 narrow, tridentate ; antennae long and massive. Thorax very broad 

 in front, strongly compressed posteriorly ; pronotnm smooth and 

 shining, very convex, almost gibbous above, meso-metanotal suture 

 very distinct ; metanotum rugosely striate, the basal portion short, 

 the apical portion vertical and separated from the basal portion by a 

 distinct carina above and on the sides ; legs long and robust, femora 

 clavate. Nodes of pedicel large, smooth and shining, conical ; abdo- 

 men oval, smooth, polished, shining, almost translucent. 



Lew/tJi, ^ 2-3 mm. 



Hah. Nearly all continental India and Ceylon. 



A variable species ; var. latro, Fore), differs in having joints 

 2-4 of the flagellum of the antennae longer than thick (much 

 thicker than long in typical yE. eeylonicvs). Certain specimens 

 from Calcutta have a few longitudinal wrinkles on the pronotum 

 and nodes of the pedicel. 



