240 TORMICID^. 



rest of the body, more or less oval, broad posteriorly ; scape of 

 the antenna) short, extending very little beyond the top of the 

 head. Thorax : ])ro- and mesonotuin form one convexity and are 

 emarginate in protile at the meso-metanotal suture as in the 7/ ; 

 mctanotal spines minute but erect and acute ; nodes of the pedicel 

 proportionately as in the 1/; abdomen oval. 



c? . Head and thorax fuscous brown, opaque ; mandibles, clypeus, 

 antennic, legs and abdomen yellow, shining. Head subcircnlar, 

 eyes and ocelli enormous, clypeus convex ; antenna? long, the scape 

 short, equal in length to the basal three joints of the tlagellum. 

 Thorax massive, oval, the mesonotum broad and somewhat Hat. 

 Nodes of the pedicel low, subequal ; abdomen broadly oval. "Wings 

 brownish or yellowish white, the nervures and stigma yellow. 



Lmyth. 1/ ;3-5-4-5 ; ^ 1-5-2; S 4-5 mm. 



JIab. Eecorded only from 8ikhim {Jloller) and Ceylon (Yer- 

 hnnj). 



21 \ . Phidole sykesi, Forel Rev. Suisse ZooL x (1902), p. 173,1/ ^ d" ? ; 

 id Jour. Bomb. N. H. tSoc. xiv (1902), pp. 529 ."t 541. 



1/ . Dark brownish or chestnut-red, the flagellum of the 

 antenniB, the thorax and legs a shade lighter. Head, thorax 

 and abdomen abundaiitly covered with soft, erect, red hair. Head 

 very large, closely longitudinally striate, longer than broad, the 

 posterior lateral lobes bi'oadly rounded ; mandibles sparsely punc- 

 tured ; clypeus with a triangular medial portion depressed, smooth 

 and shining ; antennal carinne short, divergent posteriorly ; no 

 anteunal groove ; antennte short, the apex of the scape scarcely 

 reaching half the distance from its insertion to the top of the 

 lu>ad. Thorax polished and shining, emarginate at the meso- 

 metanotal suture, the pro- and mesonotum form one convexity ; 

 metanotal spines short, stout, acute. Pedicel without an appendix 

 beneath the 1st node, this latter squamiform, its upper margin 

 short, laterally bidentate ; 2nd node transverse, about twice as 

 broad as the 1st node, its upper margin rounded, produced laterally 

 into cones ; abdomen broatlly oval. 



^ . Bright light chestnut, the abdomen brown, covered \Aith 

 abundant erect reddish hairs; head, thorax anteriorly and abdomen 

 smooth, polished and shining, the sides of the thorax posteriorly 

 delicately, longitudinally striate. Head posteriorly somewhat 

 transverse and broader than in front; antenna) comparatively 

 stout, the scape extending beyond the top of the head by about 

 one-fourth of its length. Thorax emarginate at the meso- 

 metanotal suture ; metanotnm withovit spines. Anterior node 

 of the pedicel squamiform ; posterior node oval, nearly circular, 

 a little broader ])Osteriorly than in front. 



5 . Eesembles the % in colour, head smaller proportionately ; 

 thorax smooth, sparsely punctured, metanotal spines stout, broad 

 at base : anterior node of the pedicel as in the 1/ , posterior node 

 broader. AViugs subhyaline, nervures and stigma yellowish. 



