198 KOIlMlCIDA\ 



22S, Myrmecina striata, Emen/, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xxvii (1889), 



p. .-(X), 9 . ■ 



^ . Black, the mandibles (exceptin{]f the margins narrowly), the 

 antenna), the legs (except the coxa;), the sides of the abdomen, the 

 apical margin of the 1st and tlie whole of the remaining abdominal 

 segments, reddish yellow ; head, thorax and abdomen covered with 

 a sparse pale pilosity, pubesceiK e absent except on the flagellum of 

 the antennie ; head, thorax above and on the sides, and the nodes 

 of the pedicel above longitudinally clianneled ; mandibles, middle 

 of the ciypeus, legs and abdomen smooth and shining, the last 

 highly polished. Head as broad as long, decjply emarginate 

 posteriorly, the occiput submargined anteriorly, the chfr'eks very 

 slightly convex, the eyes quite lateral and ])laced well anterior to 

 the middle of the head ; mandibles with the masticatory margin 

 indistinctly dentate, the apical tooth acute ; ciypeus viewed in 



Fig. 73. — jMyr,itcci)i(! t^triala, ^ . 



profile somewhat porrect, with a triangular, somewhat depressed 

 medial portion, bearing an indistinct carina on each side, continued 

 as the antennal carin;r, these latter wide apart ; antennoe long and 

 stout, the scape very nearly extending to the top of the head. 

 Thorax: the pro-mesonotum a little convex, the sides vertical, 

 slightly concave, the metanotal spines close together, divergent, 

 pointing backwards and slightly upwards; legs with the middle of 

 the femora and tibiae incrassate. Pedicel and abdomen with the 

 characters as in the genus. 



Lenr/th, ^ 3-75 mm. 



Hab. Tenasserim, Muleyit, 5000 feet (Fea). 



Genus LIOMYRMEX. 



Myrmica, pt., Smith, Jour. Linn. Soc. v (18(31), p. 108, ^ . 

 Liomyrniex, Mciyr, Xovora Jieisc, Formicid. 1 805, p. ^O. 



Type, L. coicus^, Smitli, from Dorey. 



Ranr/e. Indo-Malayan region. 



^ . Head rectangular ; mandibles more or less triangular, w ith 

 the masticatory margin dentate; ciypeus flat, rounded and distinctly 

 limited posteriorly between the bases of the antennir, its anterior 

 margin transverse ; antennal carina? remarkably short, somewhat 

 wide apart; antenna) 10-11 -jointed, the club of the flagellum long. 



