piiibolj:. 227 



A' ', Head shorter, about as 

 long- as broad. 

 rt''. Metanotal spines long, 

 longer than half the 

 length of the basal [p. 264. 



face of metanotum . . P. rotschana, 

 h'^ ' . 31etanotal spines vevy 

 short, barely half the 

 length of the basal 

 face of metanotum. 

 ft'". I'ronotuni seen from 



the front rounded, [p. 265. 



convex P. hhnalayunu, 



h^^. Pronotum seen from 

 the front flat ante- 

 riorly, transverse 



above P. allani, p. 264. 



. Club of flagellum of auteunte formed of apicul four 



joints. 

 a. Light reddish-brown ; head enormous, clypeus [p. 227. 



not cariuate /-•. smythiesi, 



h. Very dark brown, almost black ; head proportion- [p. 228. 



ately much smaller, clypeus medially carinate. . P. bhavunce, 



255. Phidole smythiesi, Forel. Rev. Sume Zool. X (1902), pp. 165 & 

 185, <? $ c? ; id Jour. Bomb. N. H. tSoc. xiv (1902), pp. 523 



&538. 



1/ . Of a clear light or reddish chestnut-brown all over, slightly 

 shining, covered with abundant reddish-yellow erect hairs. Head 

 enormously large, much broader than long, posteriorly deeply 

 emarginate, with no depression on the vertex but a broad, smooth, 

 depressed line down the middle ; anteriorly finely but rathei* 



Fig. 79. — Phidole i^inythiesi, g . 



vaguely longitudinally striate, the stri» breaking into punctures 

 and shallow reticulations posteriorly ; mandibles punctured and 

 sparsely striate, tlie masticatory margin acutely pointed at apex, 

 without distinct teeth but sliglitly crenulate ; clypeus longi- 

 tudinally striate ; antennal carina; short and widely divergent 

 posteriorly, no antennal groove : antenna; short, the scape from 

 its insertion reaching barely halfway to the top of the head ; 

 flagellum clavate, the apical four joints subequal ; eves small, 



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