PSEUDOPONEEA . — CE>'TIlOilYEMEX. 



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somew hat shiuing. Head emarginate posteriorly ; mandibles 

 longitudinalh' striate ; a distinct but very narrow and short im- 

 pressed line vertically on the frout between the antennal carinae ; 

 eyes minute, concolorous with the surface of the head, not black. 

 For the rest the characters of the genus. 



2 . " Wings hyaline shaded with vellow : for the rest as in 

 the ^ " {Ford). 



Length, ^ 6 ; 2 7 mm. 



Hab. Sikhim (Muller) ; Assam (Smi/tJiies) ; through Burma and 

 Teuasseriu; (Fea) to the Malay Peninsula. 



114. Pseiidoponera darwini, Forel (Belonopeltaj, Ann. Soc. Ent. 

 Belfj. xxxvii (l.^-^OS), p. 460, 5; eV/. (Relonopelta), Jour. Bomb. 

 jS\ H. Soc. xiii (1900), p. 320. 



5 . Brownish yellow all over, 

 on the head and thorax ; head. 



in some specimens darkening 

 thorax and abdomen minutely 

 and densely punctate, rugu- 

 lose and subopaque ; entirely 

 covered with \ery tine short 

 silky yellow pubescence, as in 

 P. amhJjiops most conspicuous 

 on the head in front ; pilosity 

 fairly abundant, long and 

 soft towards the apex of the 

 abdomen. Head without the 

 mandibles rectangular, nearly 

 square, slightly and broadly 

 emarginate ])Osteriorly, the 

 sides slightly convex, the 

 posterior and anterior margins 

 about the same breadth ; mandibles long, triangular, the masti- 

 catory margin armed with 7 teeth alternately large and small : 

 clypeus with the median lobe shorter and less pronounced than in 

 P. ambhjops ; eyes and ocelli large and consijicuous, the former 

 nearh' touchiog the bases of the mandibles. Thorax, legs, pedicel 

 and abdomen with the characters as in the genus. 

 Leiirjth, 2 4-5 mm. 



Hah. 'K.iindiVVL {Wroiujldon); Ceylon {Green). Described origin- 

 ally from AVest Australia. Dr. forel has separated the Indian 

 species as var. indica. It differs from the type (Australian) by the 

 shorter, squarer head. So far as I am aware, the ^ is unknown. 



-Pscudoponera darwini, $ . 

 a. Head. 



Genus CENTROMYRMEX. 



Ponera, pt., liager, Berlin, ent. Zeit. \ (18lil), p. 5, 2. 

 Ceutromvimex, Mai/r, J'erlt. zool.-bot. Ges. ll'icn, xvi (1866), 



p. 894,' 5 . ' 



Spalacumyrmex, Emery. Ann. Mus. C'ic. Gen. xxvii (1889), p. 489, ^ . 



Type, C. holiemanni, Mayr, from Brazil. 



Mange. Central and Southern America, and Ceylon and Burma. 



