42 lORMiciD.i:. 



" $ . Thorax wide. Pronotuin as long as the niesonotum, both 

 shining and abundantly i)iinctured. The mesonotum has two 

 lateral carina; converging posteriorly. Scutellum smooth and 

 shining. Metauotiim strongly transversely striate. Node of the 

 pedicel eniarginate above." {Forel.) 



Loif/tJi. ^ 3-5 : 2 ^ mm. 



Hah. Bengal, Sikhini {Kothney 4' Moller) ; Western and Southern 

 India ( Wrotujhton). 



4b. Anochetus yerburyi, i'lirc/, /(/«;•. Bomb. N. II. Soc. xiii (1900), 

 pp. 59 & 62, 5 . 



5 . Closely resembles A. punctiventris, INlayr, but is slightly 

 larger and the sculpture is much feebler and less pronounced. 

 Head, with the mandibles and antennae, and the legs testaceous 

 yellow, the thorax and abdomen light shining castaneous red. 

 Head smooth with, on the front, a fan-sliaped area finely, very 

 faintly, longitudinally striate. Thorax somewhat coarsely longi- 

 tudiuall}' rugose in front, the meso- and metanotum transversely 

 striate. Xode of the pedicel flat, squaraiform, only slightly 

 convex in front above, the margin is subacute and rounded ; 

 abdomen smooth and shining, with the base punctured. 



Length, ^ 4-4*5 mm. 



Hah. Ceylon {Green). 



49. Anochetus sedilloti, Emery, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xxi (1884), 

 pp. 377 & 378, fi<5-. ^ ; Forel, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xiii 

 (1900), p. 59, ? . 



^ . Head with the mandibles and antennae, thorax and legs more 

 or less light reddish brown, abdomen dark brown. In some the 

 mandibles and antennae are lighter in colour than the head. Head 

 smooth except for a few delicate longitudinal striae on and between 

 the antennal carinae ; mandibles tridentate at apex, the intermediate 

 tooth very small. Thorax very finely and delicately striate, the 

 striae transverse on the collar and on the meso- and metanotum, 

 and longitudinal on the disc of the pronotum. Node of the pedicel 

 thick and conical, more convex in front than posteriorly, raised, 

 higher or as high as the metanotinn ; abdomen smooth, polished 

 and shining. 



5 . " Ocelli very small. Pronotum longer than the mesonotum. 

 This latter small, nearly level, margined by two posteriorly con- 

 vergent carinae. Metanotum subcubical, transversely striate. 

 Pronotum partly striate and partly punctate ; mesonotum opaque, 

 irregularlv punctate. Wings hyaline. Eor the rest as in the ^ ." 

 {Forel.) 



d . " ^'ery similar to the S of A. madaraszi, but the mesonotum 

 wants the converging furrows. Pedicel somewhat higher. Genital 

 valves larger. Of a brownish black, the abdomen posteriorly 

 brown. Legs and autenna3 testaceous. The wings smootli and 

 hyaline ; nervures and stigma rather pale." {Forel.) 



