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fine and soft and tolerably abundant, on the scape of the antennae 

 and on the tibiae of the legs it is shorter and oblique. Head 

 without the mandibles almost rectangular, a very little broader 

 posteriorly than in front and distinctly longer than broad ; man- 

 dibles subtriangular, the masticatory margin minutely denticulate ; 

 clypeus with the middle portion broad, rounded posteriorly, ante- 

 riorly slightly curved downwards : antennae short and thick, the 

 scape barely extending to the top of the head ; eyes large, round, 

 placed about the middle of the sides of the head. Thorax broad 

 and convex anteriorly, with the anterior lateral angles rounded, 

 narrowed posteriorly ; the pro-mesonotal suture obsolete ; the 

 meso-metanotal suture visible but not impressed : the basal 

 portion of the metauotum slightly sloping, the metanotal spines 

 short, thick, erect. Pedicel short, the 1st node pear-shaped, the 

 2nd node transversely oval ; abdomen broadly oval. 



5 . " Black ; abdomen brown ; legs, antennae and mandibles 

 reddish. Mesonotum striate, with large scattered punctures. 

 Head reticulate, not so striate as in the ^ . First node shorter, 

 broader than long. For the I'est as in the ^ ." (ForeJ.) 



LeiKjth, ^ 2-0 ; 2 3 mm. 



Hab. Recorded so far only from the Xilgiri hills (Wrour/hton). 



200. Tetramorinm curvispinosum, Mai/r, Termesz. Fiizetek, xx 

 (1897), p. 430, $ . 



" ^ . Brownish red, pedicel and abdomen yellowish red, the 

 latter in front somewhat brighter and in the middle browner; 

 the mandibles, antennae and legs yellow*. Pilosity yellow, some- 

 what long over the whole body. The mandibles are densely 

 longitudinallv striate ; head and thorax coarsely longitudinally 

 striate, reticulate, with the finely reticulate-punctate meshes 

 of the reticulations shining and somewhat smooth, the clypeus 

 only longitudinally striate : the sides of the thorax are irregularly 

 coarsely reticulate ; the nodes of the pedicel with fine but shallow 

 reticulations and some wrinkles on the sides, above somewhat 

 smooth and shining. 



'■'Head trapeziform, w'ith plainly convex sides and moderately 

 arched posterior margin. The clypeus with an anteriorly trans- 

 verse, plainly truncate margin. Antennal carinae prolonged by 

 striae to the top : antennal furrow for reception of scape of 

 antennae well-marked. Scape of the 12-jointed antennae reaches 

 up to the top of the head . . . ; eyes somewhere about the middle 

 of the sides of the head. Thorax short, strongly arched, without 

 sutures ; the metanotal spines are stout, very long, nearly half 

 the length of the whole thorax, springing near each other they 

 are directed obliquely and upwards and are somewhat strongly 

 bent inwards ; the two teeth between which the articulation of 

 the pedicel with the thorax lies are large and triangular, and have 

 their bases connected with the bases of the metanotal spines by a 

 carina on each side ; between the carinae lies the deep and narrow 



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