168 FORMICIDJE. 



191 . Meranoplus miicronatus, Smith, Jour. Linn. Soc. ii (1857), p. 82, 



pl. 1', ii,-. o, ^ . 



^ . Dark ferruginous red, scape of the antennae, antennal 

 grooves, margins of the pro-mesonotal shield and legs yellowish ; 

 pilosity short, fairly abundant, yelloAvish red in colour. Head, 

 thorax above, and nodes of the pedicel roiighly sculptured ; frontal 

 area, anteuntc and antennal groove.s, sides of the thorax, the 

 nietanotuui and legs smooth and shining ; abdomen closely, very 

 distinctly reticulate-punctate, opaque. Head a little longer than 

 broad, convex ; mandibles and clypeus longitudinally striate ; frontal 

 area depressed but distinct; eyes comjjaratively small, antennal 

 grooves and antenna; characteristic of the genus. Thorax : the 

 pro-mesonotal shield square, with a semitransparent lamellar 

 process between the long spines arming each angle of the square ; 

 t\\o short processes between the posterior t«o spines, each pro- 

 cess divided at apex into two or three acute little spines ; meta- 

 notum narrowed, concave, vertical, bilaterally carinate, the carinje 

 ending above in a long slender curved spine ; legs long, robust. 

 Pedicel: the 1st node squamate, pentagonal, viewed from the side 

 triangular ; 2nd node flat in front, rounded and sloping posteriorly ; 

 abdomen convex, cordate, acuminate at apex. 



Length., g 6 mm. 



Hah. Lower Burma, Pegu Yoma (Bim/Jtam). 



I only once came across this species. It appears to be rare. 



192. Meranoplus bicolor, Guer. (Cryptocerus) Cuv. Iconof/i: Regn. 



A7tim., Ins. iii (1838), p. 425 ; 'Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. Land. 



187o, p. 34, pl. i, tips. 1-3, ^ 2 d- 

 ? Merauoplus dimicaus, Walker, A. M. N. H. (3) iv (1859), p. 375, ^ 

 PMerauoplus villosus, Motsch. Etud. Entom. viii (1859), p. 115, $ . 



^ . Head, thorax, legs and pedicel of the abdomen bright ferru- 

 ginous red, abdomen black ; pilosity very long, soft, abundant and 

 cf a grey colour ; head and thorax above and the 2nd node of the 



Fig. G(>. — Meranojyli'.alicolur, '^. a. Kead. 



pedicel coarsely scul]ituied. cribrate ; sides of the thorax punc- 

 tured, opaque ; the antennal groove within and the melanotum 

 smooth ; scape of antenna? and legs sparsely, flagellum finely and 



