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rORMICID.E. 



§ . Ecddish yellow 



40. Mystrium camillse, Emery, Ann. Mas. Civ. Gen. xxvii (1889), 

 p. 49L 9 2, pi. 10, tigs. 1-3. 



the whole insect, even on the iiianclil)les, 

 antenna; and legs, very closely and 

 somewhat coarsely pnnctured, ru- 

 gose and granulate ; pilosity \ery 

 short, rather sparse, in no way 

 hiding the sculpture ; head slightly 

 wider in front than posteriorly, 

 the sides straight from the base of 

 the mandibles for about two-thirds 

 of their length, then a little bent 

 inwards towards the posterior 

 lateral angles ; mandibles slightly 

 twisted, above longitudinally 

 grooved. For the rest, the 

 characters as in the genus. 



5 . Closely resembles the ^ ; 

 larger and more massive ; sculp- 

 ture of the head and tliorax, colour 

 and pilosity as in the ^ , the apical 

 margin of the 1st, 3rd and 4rh 

 abdominal segments above smooth, 

 slightly shiuing. For the rest, the 

 characters as given for the genus. 



Length, ^ 3-8-4-5 ; 2 nearly 7 mm. 



Hah. Eccorded only trom Upper Burma (Fea). 



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5. — Mi/strium camiila, ^, 



Genus STIGMATOMMA. 



Stigmatomnia, liuyvr, Berl. ent. Zeit. iii (1859), p. 2.50, § . 

 Amblyopoue, Fovel {nee JErichs.), Jour. Bomh. N. H. Soc. xiii (1901), 

 pp. 52 iS: 55, ^ . 



Type, S. denticulatum, Eoger, from Europe. 



Runrje. Both hemispheres. 



^ . llead without the mandibles rectangular ; thorax and abdo- 

 men more or less cylindrical in form ; mandibles elongate, narrow, 

 pointed and slightly curved at apex, armed on tlie iiuier side with 

 a double row of acute teeth ; eyes moderate or miiuite, placed at 

 the sides on the upper half of the head ; antenna^ l^-jointed, 

 filiform, the apex only slightly incrassate. Thorax narrower tlian 

 the head, the pro-mesonotal suture well marked, the thorax 

 strongly constricted at this point and divided into two almost 

 equal halves; meso-metanotal suture not distinct; metanotum 

 obliquely truncate posteriorly, the basal portion passing into the 

 apical portion by a more or less rounded curve, the apical face 

 of the metanotum broadened, the sides submargiued ; legs short, 

 robust, tlie tibiae of the posterior legs with \\\o calcaria. Pedicel 

 one-jointed, cubical, attached to the abdomen by tlie whole of its 



