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with partlv erect, short pale hairs ; pubescence almost entirely 

 aljsent. Head, thorax, node ot the pedicel 

 above and basal abdominal segment some- 

 what coarsely punctured, most densely 

 on the head and basal abdominal segment, 

 and very sparsely on the thorax above, 

 which is smooth and shining. Head longer 

 than broad, emarginate posteriorly; man- 

 dibles densely punctured : atitennal hollows 

 margined on the outside by an arcuate 

 carina; antennje very massive and thick. 

 Thorax with the basal face of the nieta- 

 notum passing into the apical face by an 

 abrupt curve, the latter margined only at 

 the sides, not above. Node of the pedicel 

 about as broad as long, slightly rounded 

 at the corners, convex above : abdomen : 

 the 2nd and succeeding segments with 

 fine, rather scattered punctures ; pygidium 

 concave, incised at apex, and with the lateral margins spinulose. 



Lenrjtli^ ^ 5-o'5 mm. 



Hah. Bengal {Taylor). 



Fig. 20. — Sp/iuicfo- 

 myrmex faylori, ^ . 



Genus LIOPONERA. 

 Lioponera, Mayr, Verh. zool.-hot. Ges. Wien, xxviii (1878), p. 6G6. 



Type, L. lonr/itarsus, IMayr, from India, Bengal. 

 Range. India and Sumatra, probably the whole Indo-Malayan 

 region. 



^. Head ovato-rectaugular ; mandibles triangular, compara- 

 tively large, masticatory margin broad, obsoletelj'" dentate : 

 clypeus very nari'ow, transverse ; antennal 

 carinte short, promiueiit, very close together ; 

 antenna? 12-iointed, scape and ilagellum 

 both nicrassate towards the apex ; eyes 

 round, proportionately very large, placed 

 forward on the sides of the head close to the 

 base of the mandibles ; head posteriorly 

 transverse. Thorax short, rectangular, 

 transverse in front, truncate posteriorly, 

 the sides flat ; the pro-meso- and meso- 

 metanotal sutures obsolete ; legs stout, 

 elongate, the tarsi especially so ; the femora 

 and tibiaj cylindrical. Pedicel one-jointed, 

 with the node nearly square, very slightly 

 F\s,. 2\ .—Licipimcra Convex above, broader than long, truncate 

 lo>iffi/nrstis, ^. and slightly concave in front, transverse 



posteriorly ; abdomen comparatively long, 

 longer than the tliorax, the constriction between the basal two 

 segments very dee]). 



