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Key to the Species. 



a. Posterior niarfjrin of node of pedicel aviiied 

 with a number of blunt processes. 



a'. Metanotum unanned I>. riijipcs, p. 96. 



b' . Metanotuui armed v itli a blunt tooth or 



.<pine on each side B. 1mpino»a, p. 97. 



h. Node of pedicel sim])le, unarmed. 



a . 1st joint of Hagellum of antennae equal to, 

 not longer than, 2nd joint. Length G"o - 



7 mm B. tessentioda, j). 97. 



//. 1st joint of Hagellum of anteun;e distinctly 

 longer than I'nd. 



a'-. Length 8-1:^ mm B. sidcata, p. 98. 



b'-. Length o mm B. ruhif/inosa, p. 99. 



116. Bothroponera rufipes, Jerdon (Ponera), Madr. Jour. Lit. ^V Sci. 

 xvii (ISol), p. 119, ? : Ford. Jaw: Bomb. N. II. Soc xiii 

 (1900), p. .323, ? . 



^ . Dull black ; the mandibles, antenua? and legs castaneous 

 red, the apical two or three abdominal segments bright ferruginous; 

 the whole insect covered with an abundant pale reddish-yellow 

 pilosity. Head, thorax and node of the pedicel in front coarsely 

 punctured, cribrate ; the basal two abdominal segments rugose 

 with remarkably coarse longitudinal ridges, the intei'vals between 

 them coarsely punctured ; the apical segments finely punctured, 

 the vellowish-red hair on them long and thick. Mandibles 



V\<r.5{).—Boihroi)onera rufipes, ^. «. Thorax. 



obsoletely, finely, longitudinally striate and marked w ith some 

 coarse shallow punctures, the teeth on the niasticatory margin 

 often worn and obsolete ; clypeus with a medial, often ill-detiued, 

 short carina at base ; antenna? densely pubescent, finely rugulose, 

 opaque; eyes comparatively small: occiput slightly emarginate, 

 the anterior border of the emargination and the posterior lateral 



