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tuberculate, forming with the mesonotum one convexit}- ; meso- 

 notum with no transverse groove, metanotal spines short, stout 

 and acute. Pedicel short: 1st node subcuneifonn, transversely 

 rounded above, with no appendix beneath ; 2nd node from above 

 circular, about as broad as long ; abdomen broadly oval. 



^ . Head and thorax dark brown : antennae, legs and abdomen 

 brownish yellow. Head, thorax and abdomen with a few scattered 

 erect pale hairs, antennje and legs with a dense pale pubescence. 

 Head finely and closely punctured, opaque, longer than broad, the 

 occiput broad and slightly emarginate, the scape of the antennae 

 barely reaching, not extending beyond, the top of the head. 

 Thorax sculptured like the head, opaque, broad anteriorly, the 

 pronotum laterally tuberculate or sub-tuberculate ; metanotum 

 laterally dentate, its basal portion flat, longer than broad. Pedicel 

 seen from above elongate ; the 1st node rounded above, only 

 slightly smaller than the 2nd node, this latter circular, no appendix 

 beneath ; abdomen oval. 



"■ c? . Mandibles tridentate. Antenna) as in P. wood-masoni ; 

 head behind the eyes shorter. Metanotum depressed. Sculpture 

 as in F. ivood-masoni, but some fine stria) on the thorax ; pilosity 

 more spax'se. Brownish yellow. Wings short, with a brownish 

 tint, nervui'es and stigma pale." {Forel.) 



Length, 1/2; ^ I'o : c? 3-2 mm. 



Hah. Recorded hitherto only from Calcutta (Eothney) and 

 Ivanara ( Wrovghton). 



275. Phidole sagei, Ford, Rev. Suisse Zool. x (1902), pp. 174 & 192, 

 1/ & ? ; id. Jour. Bomb. N. H. Sac. xiv (1902), pp. 530 & 542. 



" 1/ . Head broad, nearly as broad as long, the sides somewhat 

 convex. Pronotal tubercles obtuse. Eyes placed in the anterior 

 fourth of the head. Mandibles smooth, with scattered punctures. 

 Clypeus carinate and emarginate. A place for the scape and 

 flagellum, more feebly sculptured within. Scape short, relatively 

 about the length it is in P. si/7cesL A wide transverse impression 

 on the vertex. Occipital emargination moderately deep. Abdo- 

 men and the head posteriorly smooth, I'est of the insect finely 

 reticulate and opaque. The head, moreover, somevvhat finely 

 and closely longitudinally striate, the occiput in part reticulate. 

 Some transverse stria; on the pronotum. Ferruginous red. Abdo- 

 men brown. Legs and antennae yellowish." (Forel.) 



" ^ . Identical with the ^ of P. mns, Forel, but more robust ; 

 pro-mesonotinn more convex. Spines thicker, longer (about as 

 long as half of the basal face of the metanotum); front of the 

 head more striate. Colour of a brownish-red ferruginous. Head 

 nearly square." (Forel.) 



LeiifjtJi, % 2-5; ^ I'S mm. 



Hah. liecorded hitherto only from Dharmsala in the North-west 

 Himalayas (Sage). 



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