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top of the head ; eyes placed a little below tlie middle of the sides 

 of the head. Thorax elongate, narrow ; seen in profile the pro- 

 mesonotiun convex, the metauotiun above level, a wide shallow 

 emargination between the two, the nieso-metanotal suture distinct, 

 the metanotal spines reduced to twu small teeth ; legs rather 

 long and slender. Pedicel : the 1st node somewhat cuneiform, 

 sloping gradually in front to almost the base of its short anterior 

 petiole ; 2nd node rounded, a little hroader than long and broader 

 than the 1st node; abdomen somewliat massive, broadly o^'al. 



Length, ^ 2'5-3*5 mm. 



Hah. Recorded so far only from the North-west Himalayas, 

 Dharmsala {Fulton). 



252. Leptothorax rothneyi, Forel, Rev. Suisse Zool. X (1902), p. 230. 



^ . Head more or less ferruginous brown, thorax and pedicel 

 more or less bright ferruginous red, abdomen brown to dark 

 brown, mandibles, autennse and legs yellow ; head and thorax 

 minutely and closely punctured, rugulose and more or less opaque, 

 in some specimens slightly shining ; pilosity pale, short, sparse, 



Fig. 77. — Leptothorax rothvcyi. ^ . a. Head from front. 



the apices of the hairs blunt. Head broadly oval as in L. ftdtoni^ 

 somewhat broader and more transverse posteriorly ; mandibles 

 minutely longitudinally striate at base ; clypeus very convex in 

 the middle, polished and shining; antennte much as in L. fuUoni, 

 the club of the flagellum more massive ; eyes rather large, placed 

 in the middle of the sides of the head. Thorax : the pro-meso- 

 notum rather broad, anteriorly con\ex, narrowing posteriorly ; the 

 basal portion of the metanotuiu rectangular, with a somewhat 

 stout triangular erect spine at the posterior lateral angles on each 

 side. Pedicel thick, the nodes somewhat as iu L. fnltoni, the 

 2nd node transverse, broad ; abdomen oval, anteriorly truncate, 

 posteriorly somewhat pointed. 



LengtJi, g 2-5 to nearly 3 mm. 



Ilab. North-west Himalayas, Mussoorie {Rothney) ; Sikhim 

 {Moller) ; hills of Central India, Pachmarhi {Scliurr). 



