142 I'ORMiciD.i:. 



constricted .suddenly, narrower than the pronotum ; nieso-meta- 

 notal suture deeply impressed ; metanotum depressed, well below 

 the level of tlie pro- and niesonotum, its basal portion horizontal, 

 broader than long, longitudinally striate, and bearing on each side at 

 the posterior lateral angles a long slender spine, ])ointing obliquely 

 outwards and curved downwards ; apical portion of inetanotuin 

 sliglitly concave, smooth and shining. Pedicel thick, the 1st joint 

 flat above, broadening anteriorly, the sides angular in the middle ; 

 l^nd joint seen from above with three rounded tubercles, the 

 anterior one small, the posterior two side by side ; the whole 

 pedicel above rugulose ; abdomen somewhat elongate, the basal 

 segment very minutely reticulate-punctate, opaque, the apical 

 segments shining. 



Length, ^ 3-o-4'5 mm. 



JIah. Sikhim (Mbller) ; Calcutta {Rothney) ; Western India, 

 from Bombay to Cochin (Wrou<j?iton, Aiilcen ^ RotJineij) ; Ceylon 

 {Yerhury 4' (jfrceii); Assam (Smythies) ; Burma {Feci 4' Binyham): 

 Tenasserim {Hodyson 4* BuiyJiain). 



1(5.5. Cremastogaster flava, Forel, J. A. S. B. Iv (1886), p. 248, ?. 



^ . Pale yellow, the head iu front and the apex of the abdomen 

 darkening to brownish ; the head, the greater part of the thorax, 

 and the abdomen very finely and delicately granulate, but with a 

 silky shining appearance ; pronotum longitudinally striate ; pilosity 

 almost entirely wanting, pubescence very sparse, oblique. Head 

 broad, a little broader than long, the occiput transverse, the front 

 with a deep, broadly interrupted, impressed line from the vertex to 

 above the clypeus ; mandibles stout, smooth ; clypeus very convex, 

 the anterior margin transverse and bent inwards ; antennae rather 

 thiek, the scape barely reaching the top of the head ; club of the 

 flagellum not remarkably thickened, formed of the apical three 

 joints. Thorax short ; the pronotum wide, with an anterior 

 depressed portion and a posterior raised and soniewhat gibbous 

 level portion ; pro-mesonotal suture indicated, but not distinct ; 

 luesonotuiii with an oblique curved slope to apex : lueso-metanotal 

 suture deeply marked ; metanotum with the level basal and trun- 

 cate apical portions subequal, the former longitudinally striate and 

 carrying two long slender spines at the posterior lateral angles, the 

 latter flat, not concave. Pedicel stout, the 1st joint fiat above, 

 greatly broadened, the side portions translucent; the '2nd joint 

 seeri from abo\e tri-tuberculate, the tubercles rounded above ; 

 abdomen very cordate, short and broad. 



Lenyth, ^ 2-5-3 mm. 



J /ah. Sibsagar, Assam ; 8ikhim (JloUer); Orissa {Taylor) ; 

 Travancore (Ferynson). 



1()6. Cremastogaster perelegans, i-oyW, Bev. Suisse Zuol. x (1902), 

 p. 202. 



^ . Head, thorax and jDedicel deep ferruginous red, legs orange- 

 yellow, abdomen black ; head, thorax and pedicel finely longitu- 



