244 loitMKiD.i:. 



276. Phidole templaria, Foiel, Ilev. Suisse Zool. x (1902), \). 174 j 



id. Jour. Bomb. X. H. Sue. xiv (1902), pp. o30 & 542. 



%. Dark cbestnut-browu, the antenna?, legs and i)edieel an- 

 teriorly yellowish brown ; bead, thorax and ah(btnieu covered 

 abundantly with sol'r, ei-ect, red hairs. Head siigfitly .shining, 

 rectangular, narrow, yery much longer tban broad, anteriorly 

 lon'i'itudinally striate, the striae posteriorly and laterally becoming 

 broad reticulations; mandibles smooth; clypeus not carinate, 

 medially smooth, its anterior margin irregidarly wayed ; antennal 

 carina; short, diyergeut, no regular antennal grooye, but above, 

 where the apex of the scape rests, there is an oblique depression ; 

 scape of antennae short, barely reaching half the distance from 

 insertion to the top of the head. Thorax slightly shining, the 

 sides rather feebly sculptured ; the pro- and mesonotum form a 

 single convexity roundly cone-shaped, raised high aliove the 

 metanotiim, the mesonotum without the transverse groove and 

 ridge : the basal portion of the metanotum flat, submargined at 

 the sides, the metanotal spines comparatively long and acute. 

 Pedicel : the 1st node in profile triangular, petiolate in front ; 

 2nd node rounded above, a little broader than long ; both nodes 

 slightly incised aboye ; abdomen very broadly oval. 



^ . Light chestnut-brown, smuoth and shining ; antenna; and 

 legs yellowish bro^\■n ; head oyal, with a broad posterior margin ; 

 antenna; stout, extending beyond the top of the head by about 

 one quarter of its length. Thorax : the pro- and mesonotum 

 raised, rounded above, forming one conyexity ; the metanotum 

 short, basal portion flac, the lateral spines short, erect and acute. 

 Pedicel and nodes like those of the % in miniature ; abdomen 

 oval. 



Lcwjth. 1/ 3 ; ^ 1-8-2 mm. 



Hah. Dr. Forel records this species from Kissor in the N.W. 

 Himalayas ; I obtained it in Sikhim at 6000 ft. elevation. 



277. Phidole parva, Mcnjr, Novam Reise, Formicid. 1865, p. 98, 1/ g , 



pi. iv. tig. 28 a, b, If. ; Forel, Rev. Suisse Zool. x (1902), pp. 175 

 & 192, %'^ ^ 6 ; "id. Jour. Bomb. N. H. Sac. x'lv (1902), pp. 530 

 &542: 

 11. Head, thorax and pedicel reddish brown, the latter two 

 lifrhter in colour than the head ; abdomen brown ; mandibles, 

 autennic and legs dark yellow ; head, thorax and abdomen covered 

 moderately ^yith short, soft, semi-erect pale hairs. Head longi- 

 tudinally striate, elongate, yery much longer than broad, constricted 

 posteriorly, the occipital emargination wide, the lateral lobes 

 prominent ; mandibles smooth, clypeus not emarginate anteriorly; 

 antenna) short, the scape reaching only to about one-third of then- 

 length from insertion to the top of the head ; antennal groove 

 shallow, reticulate within. Thorax finely reticulate-punctate, 

 o])aque, the pronotal tubercle distinct ; the transverse mesonotal 

 <'rooye shallow, the ridge posterior to it not well-marked ; meta- 



