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FORMICID.i:. 



succeeding segments of tlie abdomen ; pilosity short, erect, pale 

 reddisli and fairly abundant ; ])ubescence minute, only apparent in 

 certain lights. Head a little broader ])osteriorly than in front, 

 emarginate, but not so deeply as in E. bicolor ; mandibles shining, 

 obsoletely longitudinally striate, the masticatory margin very 

 broad ; clypeus coarsely longitudinally strigate. Thorax as in 

 E. hicohr. Pedicel as broad as long or broader, more steeply 

 sloped posteriorly than in front ; abdomen comparatively longer 

 than in E. bicolor, the whole of the 2nd segment as coarsely rugose- 

 striate as the 1st. 



Length, ^ 7-7*5 mm. 



Hah. Teuasserim {Fea). 



103. Ectatomma COXale, Roger (Ponera), Berl. ent. Zeit. iv (18()0), 

 p. 308, ^ : Forel, Jour. Bomh. N. H. Soc. xiii (1900), p. 316, ? 



5 . Dark ferruginous brown, the abdomen piceous ; the man- 

 dibles, head, thorax, pedicel and base and sides of the 1st abdo- 

 minal segment coarsely punctured, cribrate ; 2nd and following 



segments of the abdomen 

 smooth, highly polished 

 and shining ; pilosity and 

 pubescence extremely 

 sparse, almost entirely 

 wanting ; mandibles not 

 so broad as in E. cos- 

 tafum, punctured and 

 bearing delicate loiigi- 

 gitudinal striue between 

 the punctures ; the cly- 

 peus almost transverse 

 anteriorly, the portion 

 produced back between 

 the antennal cariuoe 

 rounded and depressed ; 

 antenna? slighter than in 

 either E. bicolor or E. 

 costatnm, the middle 

 joints of the flagellum a 

 little longer than broad. 

 Thorax : the pronotum 

 broad in front, the an- 

 terior margin cur\ ed. the 

 lateral angles somewhat 

 prominent; legs rat her ro- 

 bust, smooth and shining. 

 Pedicel from above slightly longer than broad, posteriorly slinhtlv 

 constricted, rounded and convex in front ; abdomen short and 

 somewhat massive. 

 Length., ^ (io nnn. 



Fig. 44. 



-Ectotomma co.vrdc, ^ , 

 Posterior leg. 



