14-i FOIlMlCID-i:. 



transverse ; eyes lateral, jjlaced about tlie middle ot the head and 

 nearly circular. Thorax proportionately rather narrow ; pronotum 

 slightly convex, broader than long, rounded at the sides and 

 somewhat coarsely rugose; pro-mesonotal suture visible, arched 

 anteriorly ; mesonotuni rectangular, longer than broad, oblique, its 

 sloping lace with fewer punctures, shining : thorax impressed at 

 the meso-metauotal suture ; the basal portion of tiie metanotum 

 horizontal, longitudinally striate, twice as broad as long ; the 

 posterior lateral angles with two long acute spines ; apical portion 

 of the metanotum oblique, nearly vertical, slightly concave ; legs 

 smooth and shining. Pedicel : the first joint Hat above, the sides 

 not much curved nor broadened ; 2nd joint viewed from above 

 with a longitudinally impressed line, the portion on each side of 

 the impi'essed line raised and rounded ; abdomen smooth, pohshed, 

 shining, very minutely and closely punctate. 



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



Hah. North-west Himalayas {Fulton J,- >Sm;/thies). 



108. Cremastogaster mogdiliani, Emery (Tapinoma), Ann. Mils. 

 Civ. Gen. xl (19UU), p. G90, ^ . 



^ . Dark reddish brown to piceous black, the mandibles, anteuute 

 and legs paler; pubescence long, I'ecumbent, oblique on the scape 

 and tibite ; head finely and closely striate, thorax more coarsely 

 striate, the pedicel closely punctured, more or less opaque, abdo- 

 men smooth. Head somewhat globose, obtusely truncate posteriorly ; 

 mandibles finely striate at base, punctured towards the apex ; 

 clypeus convex in the middle, in some specimens depressed towards 

 the anterior margin, which is transverse ; antennae comparatively 

 long, the scape extending a little beyond the top of the head ; club 

 of the Hagellum rather inehstinct, formed by the apical 4 joints; eyes 

 placed aboA-e the middle on the sides of the head. Thorax : the 

 pro- and mesonotum forming a gentle convexity, the pronotum 

 rounded anteriorly, the pro-mesonotal suture obsolete, the meso- 

 notum laterally margined and with a somewhat conspicuous short 

 medial carina ; meso-metanotal suture well-marked ; basal portion 

 of the metanotum broader than long ; the metanotal spines long, 

 slender, divergent and acute at apex, directed obliquely upwards 

 and backwards. Pedicel : the 1st joint slightly concave above 

 and broadened anteriorly ; 2nd joint with a low rounded node not 

 divided by a longitudinal groove, merely with an impression in the 

 middle ; abdomen broad and subcordate. 



Lenr/th, ^ 2-5-3-5 mm. 



Hah. Burma, Tenasserim (Fea, Bhifjliam). Extending to the 

 Malayan subregion. 



169. Cremastogaster ferrarii, Emery, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xxv 



(18s7j, y. 'j33 ; id. I. v. xxvii (1889), p. 500. 



" 5 . Brown or fuscous, smooth and shining, sparsely pilose, 

 the scape of the antenna^ and tibiae of the legs with erect hairs. 



