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iu the middle ; autennjB rather sleuder, the scape reachmg up to 

 the top of the head ; club of flagellum formed of the apical four 

 joints ; eyes lateral, a little closer to the top than to the anterior 

 margin of the head. Thorax : the pronotuiu in the ^ maj. 

 convex, not margined, in the ^ min. depressed and distinctly 

 margined ; pro-mesonotal sat ure distinct but not deep ; the meso- 



Fig. 57. — Cremastogasier u'roughfoni, ^. 



notum in the ^ min. subdentate posteriorly, in the ^ maj. th? 

 eminences are cariniform ; meso-metanotal suture very deep, the 

 sides vertical ; basal portion of the metanotum rectangular, twice 

 as broad as long in the ^ maj., more narrow iu the ^ min. ; 

 metanotal spines iu ^ maj. short and thick, in ^ min. long and 

 slender. Pedicel : the 1 st joint broadened, anteriorly cancave, as 

 broad as long, the apex posteriorly constricted ; 2ud joint with a 

 node auterioi'ly, longitudinally grooved and forming two rounded 

 eminences; abdomen broadly cordate. 



5 . Closely resembles the ^ , but the head is longitudinally 

 striate and the basal margins of the abdominal segments narrowly 

 yellow. Wings hyaline. 



Lengtli, ^ 3-5-5"5 ; 5 8 mm. 



Hah. Western India, Poona ( Wroughton). 



145. Creinastogaster subnuda, Mayr, Verh. zool.-bot. 6'e.s\ fTjcH, 

 xxviii (1878), pp. 080 & 682, ^ . 



^ . Dark chestnut-red, the abdomen darkening posteriorly to 

 fuscous black : pilosity almost entirely wanting, represented by a 

 few scattered whitish hairs. Head smooth, with a few very fine 

 indistinct longitudinal striae on the cheeks, above the antennal 

 hollow, and sometimes on the vertex ; seen from the front 

 the occiput is transverse, as broad as the head anteriorly, the 

 cheeks very convex ; mandibles punctured, in certain lights 

 finely striate ; clypeus anteriorly not quite transverse, slightlv 

 rounded, very convex in the middle ; antennae somewhat long and 

 slender, the scape reaching a little beyond the top of the head, 

 the club of the tiagellum formed of the last three joints, of which 

 the apical two are abruptly much thickened ; eyes lateral, closer 

 to the top of the head than to the anterior margin. Thorax above 

 longitudinally rugulose, the pronotum rather large, rounded in 

 front, subangular at the sides; pro-mesonotal suture tolerably 



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