PHIDOLE. 237 



quite twice as broad as long-, rounded above and at the sides, and 

 transversely striate ; abdomen broadly oval. 



^ . Dark castaneous brown, smooth and shining, but densely 

 pilose, the flagellum of the anteanaj, the legs and abdomen reddish 

 brown. Head oval, very narrow posteriorly ; antennae long, the 

 scape extending beyond the top of the head by fully one-fourth 

 of its length. Thorax elongate, the pro-meso- and meso-metanofal 

 sutures well marked, the ti-ansverse mesonotal groove slight, the 

 metanotal spines stout, erect and acute. Pedicel : the 1st node 

 as in the 2/ , but with no appendix beneath ; 2nd node convex 

 above, longer than broad ; abdomen elongate, oval, somewhat 

 attenuate towards the apex. 



Lenijtli, % 5-5"5 ; ^ 3-3'5 mm. 



Hah. Western India (Wrom/hton), Burma (Blur/ham). 



267. Phidole watsoni, Forel, Rev. Suisse Zuol. x (1902), pp. 171 & 189, 

 1/ 9 2 cT; id. Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xiv (1902), pp. 527 & 541. 



"2/ . Head, thorax and pedicel reddish brown, the head ante- 

 riorly sometimes marked with yellow, antennae and legs yellow ; 

 abdomen brown, sometimes more or less dingy whitish yellow 

 stained with brown above. Head anteriorly in front longi- 

 tudinally striate, the striae diverging laterally and breaking into 

 reticulations on the lateral lobes ; the thorax and abdomen 

 shining. Head, thorax and abdomen sparsely covered with soft, 

 short, erect hairs. Head elongate, rectangular, much longer than 

 broad, slightly constricted posteriorly, beneath anteriorly bi- 

 dentate, the occipital emargination shallow, the cheeks very 

 slightly convex, almost straight ; mandibles smooth, slightly punc- 

 tured ; clypeus a little concave, not carinate ; antennae short, the 

 scape harely one-third as long as the distance from its insertion to 

 the top of the head; antenual groove very indistinct, indicated 

 only by a smooth elongate space on \\'hich the scape rests. 

 Thorax gibbous anteriorly, the pronotum transverse, somewhat 

 flat above and bituberculate, the mesonotal transverse groove and 

 ridge not well-marked ; metanotum with the basal portion hori- 

 zontal, flat and shining, metanotal spines short, acute and erect. 

 Pedicel with the 1st node sqttamiform, rather thick, transvei'se 

 above, the petiole in front long : 2nd node a little wider and 

 larger, somewhat rhombiform ; abdomen oval. 



g . Clear pale yellow, head darker, the abdomen stained with 

 brownish. Head nearly as broad as long, the posterior maro-in 

 rounded ; antennae short, the apex of the scape extending only up 

 to the top of the head ; thorax proportionately rather long, th.e 

 basal portion of the metanotum bidentate posteriorly, larger 

 th;in the apical portion; pedicel with the nodes subequal ; 

 abdomen oval. 



Lemjth, 113; '^ I'O mm. 



Bah. Bengal {Taylor) -. Ceylon (Bothney) ; Upper Burma, 

 Myingyan (Watson) ; Southern Shan States {2Viomi>so)i). 



