44 FOBMICID.E. 



finely longitudinally striate, the striae spreading out in a fan-shape, 

 divergent ])ostei-iorly, rest of the head smooth and polished. 

 Thorax : the pronotum convex, broad, u ith concentrically arched 

 striae, the constricted neck in front, the meso- and metanotum 

 with fine transverse strite ; metanotum unarmed, the apex obliquely 

 truncate ; legs smooth and shining. Node of pedicel viewed from 

 the back oval, flat, rounded above ; abdomen rather massive; node 

 of the pedicel and abdomen highly polislied, smooth and shining. 



(S . Dark reddish brown, the mandibles, antennae, legs, and 

 abdomen from the 3rd segment to the apex testaceous; wings 

 lacteous, nervures and stigma pale testaceous. Head, thorax 

 and abdomen shining, covered Avith short, faii'ly abundant dark 

 pubescence. Head with the eyes and ocelli very large and 

 prominent. Thorax with the mesonotum and scutelluin gibbous, 

 very convex and prominent, punctured, the convergent furrows on 

 the mesonotum not distinct ; metanotum short", broad, truncate 

 posteriorly ; node of the pedicel thick, not raised to the level of 

 the metanotum ; abdomen massive, finely punctured. 



LeiKjth, ^ 5-.5-6 ; S 4 mm. 



Hah. Bengal (EotJmri/) ; Western India ( Wroughton) ; Ceylon 

 {Green ij" Wlclcwar). 



52. Auochetus kanariensis, Ford, Jokv. Bomb. K.H. Sue. xm^YdOQ), 

 pp. .-39 .^ Cy2, V . 



^ . The posterior three-fourths of the head and the abdomen 

 dark brown, almost black, the remainder of the head and the 

 thorax bright rufous ; mandibles, antennae and legs pale yellow. 

 Head, thorax and abdomen covered with somewhat sparse, short, 

 erect whitish hairs, and a fine thin sericeous white pubescence, 

 dense on the antennae, and obsolete, almost absent, on the abdomen. 

 Head tolerably coarsely, regularly longitudinally striate ; the 

 sides below the eyes and the antennal hollows .smooth, highly 

 polished and shining ; mandibles minutely punctured and shining, 

 the apical teetli remarkably long and acute, rather slender. Thorax 

 densely bnt finely rugulose, opaque. Xode of the pedicel thick, 

 convex in front, conca\e posteriorly, above almost fiat, and viewed 

 from above crescentic, somewhat coarsely rugose : basal abdominal 

 segment very finely transversely striate, the striae in concentric 

 arches from back to front, remainder of abdomen finely punctured, 

 shining. 



Length., g 7 mm. 



Hah. Western India, Kanara {WrouglUon) ; Madras {llothney). 



Dr. Forel regards this as a race only of A. orkntalls, Andre, 

 from Cochin China. 



o;J. AnOClietuS nietneri, li'^icr (Odontoinachus), Jkrl. ent. Zeit. v. 

 (18G1), p. i'3, $; Foro'l, Jour. Bomh. X H. Soc. xiii (1900), 

 p.o9, ?. 

 " g . Shining ferruginous, with bright yellow legs and mandibles; 



