CREMASTOGASTEK. 141 



a little broader than long ; seen from the front the oc(;iput 

 transverse ; the eyes large and prominent, placed above tlie 

 middle of tlie head ; mandibles finely striate ; clypeus short, 

 truncate anteriorly ; antennae rather slender but sliort, tlie scape 

 not quite reaching the top of the head, the club of the flagellum 

 formed of the last three joints. Thorax finely and very closely 

 reticulate-punctate, rugulose, submargined along the sides ; the 

 pronotum somewhat flat above, rounded anteriorly ; pro-mesonoral 

 suture indicated, the mesonotum slightly concave ; the meso- 

 nietanotal suture very distinct; the basal portion of the raetanotura 

 transversely rectangular, longitudinall}- striate ; the nietanotal 

 spines long and stout, divergent ; apiral portion of metanotum 

 finely minutely punctured, shining. Pedicel : the 1st joint broad, 

 flat above, broader in front than posteriorly, the sides rounded ; 

 2nd joint seen from above tritubereulate on upper side : the 

 tubercles rounded, the anterior one small, the other two larger, 

 side by side, subecjual ; the whole pedicel rugulose above ; 

 abdomen broadly cordate. 



Length, ^ 3-3 '5 mm. 



Hab. Sikhim (Mollcr) ; Calcutta. Bhavnagar and Bombay 

 {Eothnei)) ; Poona ( Wruiujhton). 



Yar. CM'rt, Forel, is a form more strongly sculptured. 



164. Cremastogaster rogenhoferi, Mayr. Vo-It. z<>ol.-bot. Ges. Wien, 



xxviii (ly7S), pp. (iSl & 683, ^ . 



^ . Eeddish brown, darkenincr to brown on the posterior half 

 of the abdomen ; the antennae, legs and posterior mai'gius of the 

 abdominal segments somewhat narrowly yellow ; pilosity pale. 



Fig. 58. — Cremastu<jastcr rogcnhofe: 



sparse and very short. Head very finely longitudinally rugulose, 

 subopaque, from the front nearly square, the posterior margin 

 transverse ; )uandibles rugulose ; clypeus short, slightly convex, 

 the anterior margin of the medial portion slightly squarely pro- 

 duced ; antenna) moderately thick, the scape reaching uj) to the 

 top of the head, the club of the flagellum formed of the apical 

 three joints ; in many specimens the ocelli are fairly distinct ; 

 eyes lateral, placed about the middle of the head. Thorax longi- 

 tudinally rugulose ; the pronotum somewhat flat, the sides vertical 

 and narrowing anteriorly; the pro-mesonotal suture distinct; 

 mesonotum curving obliquely back, margined at the sides and 



