ANOCHETUf?. 41 



oblique, truncate at apex, the sides ]:)roduced and rounded, obtuse. 

 Node of the pedicel as high as the metanotum, smooth and 

 shining, conical, rounded above ; abdomen highly polished, smooth 

 and shining. 



Length, g 4*5 mm. 



Hah. Lower Burma, Palon near Kangoon (/''m) ; Pegu Yoma 

 {Blngliani) . 



I am not quite certain wliether I have identified this species 

 correctly; the one specimen that I procured has not got the disc 

 of the pro- and mesonotum smooth, but in other particulars, espe- 

 cially in the smallness of the eyes and in colour, it agrees fairly 

 well with Dr. Emery's description of his ui. mijops from Burma. 



46. Anochetus rudis, Hmen/, Ami. Mus. Civ. Gen. xxvii (1889), 



p. 499, 5 ; Ford, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Sac. xiii (1900), p. 60, ^ . 



^ . Resembles A. punctiventris, Mayr, but is considerably 

 larger and more stoutly built. Dark brown, the mandibles, 

 antennte, and the whole head, except in the hollows, the legs and 

 the apical margin of the basal abdominal segment reddish castaneous. 

 Head, thorax and abdomen densely pilose and pubescent ; the head, 

 thorax, node of the pedicel and base of the 1st abdominal segment 

 densely punctured, rugose and opaque ; on the head and the 

 thorax anteriorly in certain lights the punctures seem to run into 

 longitudinal striae; the rest of the abdomen and the legs polished, 

 smooth and s!iii}ing. Head with a A'ery narrow median space 

 posteriorly, smooth in some specimens ; thorax with the posterior 

 apical obliquely truncate face of the inetanotiun submargined and 

 coarsely transversely striate. 



LengtJi, ^ 4'5-G mm. 



Hah. Burma, Mandalay (Fea) • Ceylon, Kandy (BingJiam), 



1 am not quite sure whether I have identified this species 

 correctly. Specimens I have from Ceylon agree fairly well with 

 Dr. Emery's very brief description. 



47. Anochetus punctiventris, Mayr, Vcrh.zool.-hot. Ges. Wien, xxviii 



( 1878), p. (>")9, ^ ; Ford, Jour. Bonib. N. H. tSoc. xiii, pp. 59 & 03 

 (1900). 



^ . Brownish ferrtiginous, the abdomen conspicuously darker, 

 the mandibles and legs lighter in colour. Head, thorax, and 

 abdomen with a few scattered pale hairs, erect on the head and 

 thorax, depressed and oblique on the abdomen ; pubescence 

 absent. Head posteriorly not so deeply emarginate as in some of 

 the other species, convex in front, closely and regularly punctured, 

 the punctures finer and more sparse on the mandibles and scape 

 of the antennte : the preapicul inner margin of the mandibles 

 minutely serrate. Thorax densely punctured, obliquely truncate 

 posteriorly, tiie apical face of the metanotum conspicuously 

 margined at the sides. Node of the pedicel ovate, round.ed above, 

 smooth ; abdomen stout, the basal segment densely punctate iu 

 front. 



