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" (S . Mandibles tridentate, narrow at base. 8cape shorter than 

 tho basal two joints of the flagfllum united. Head posteriorly 

 trapeziiorin. Of a diui^y brownish-yellow colour. Metanotum 

 with two rounded elevations. Sculpture, wings and pilosity as 

 in the $ and 11:' (Forel.) 



Length, % G-5-7-5 ; g 3-3-5; $ 10; c? 6 mm. 



Unb. A'orth-west Provinces {iSmi/thies) ; Central (James) and 

 Western India ( Wroiujhton). 



27lJ. Phidole WOOd-masoni, Ford, Jour. As. Soc. IJe/if/. In; pt. 2 

 (I8S.J). p. 180, 1/ 2 ; liev. Suisse. Zool. x (1902), pp. 173 Sc 191, 

 1/ ^ 9 (5; id. Jour. Bomb. N. 11. Hoc. xiv (1902), pp. 529 & 641. 



1/ . Bright, rather light yellow, the mandibles brown, abdomen 

 fuscous brown; head, thorax and abdomen covered with I'ather 

 long semi-erect pale yellow Iiairs, most abundant on the abdomen ; 

 hend nearly tu ice as long as broad, rectangular ; mandibles smooth, 

 sparsely punctured, with two acute teeth at apex ; clypeus narrow 

 and transverse ; autennal carinas short, divergent posteriorly, no 

 antennal groove ; scape of the antenna) barely reaching one-third 

 of the distance between their insertion and the top of the head ; 

 eyes very small, placed on the sides in the anterior fourth oE the 

 head ; head shining, anteriorly finely striate, the posterior half 

 sparsely punctured. Thorax : the pro- and mesonotum broad, 

 forming one convexity, the former laterally tuberculate, the latter 

 vertical posteriorly, the basal portion of th(^ metanotum depressed 

 and level, the metanotal spines very short, erect. Nodes of the 

 pedicel subequal, in profile conical, rounded above, with no 

 appendix beneath ; abdomen broadly oval. 



^ . Light yellow all over, shining ; head posteriorly very 

 slightly but distinctly emarginate; antennic short, the scape 

 barely reaching to the top of the head ; thorax smooth and 

 shining, the same shape in miniature as in the "}/ . Posterior 

 node of the pedicel slightly larger than the anterior node ; 

 abdomen oval. 



$ . Brownish yellow ; head as broad as long, entirely longi- 

 tudinally striate, except a smooth elongate space for the scape ; 

 thorax and abdomen smooth and shining, the metanotum strongly 

 bidentate ; the posterior node of the pedicel with its lateral angles 

 acute. Pilosity similar to that in the 1/, but more dense. 



'• J- Mandibles bidentate. Scape barely so long as the basal 

 two joints of the tlagellum, of which the 2nd is a little longer 

 than broad. Head posteriorly trapeziform, the sides oblique, the 

 posterior margin short, the head opaque, finely striate and reticu- 

 late. The rest of the insect smooth and shining, like the 9 

 and c? of T\ sylcesi. Pale yellow, head brownisli yellow ; wings 

 yellowish, subhyaline, elongate." {Forel.) 



Length, If. 2*5-4; g 1"5 ; 5 4*5-5; c? 3*5 mm. 

 Hub. Spread sparingly through Continental India and Cevlon. 

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