I'HIDOLE. ■ 24o 



iiotum short, witli the basal and apical portions subequal, the 

 inctanotal spines proportionately rather stout and acute. Pedicel 

 comparatively Ion"': the 1st node squaniiform, hi2;h, transvei'se 

 above, with no appendix beneath ; the 2nd node transverse, laterally 

 ■cone-shaped ; abdomen short, depressed, smooth and shining. 



^ . Keddish bro\^n ; antennae and le2;s yellowish. Head oval, 

 longitudinally striate ; antennae comparativelv long, the scape 

 passing beyond the top of the head by about one-third of its 

 length. Thorax short, convex anteriorly : the metanotal spines 

 short and stout. 



5 . Eeddish brown, the head in front, the antenna? and legs 

 yellowish red. Pilosity moderately plentiful. Head square, 

 as broad as the thorax, suiooth ; the mesonotuu) with obsolete 

 longitudinal striae ; the metanotum opaqvxe, punctured ; metanotal 

 spines stout, acute ; wings brownish hyaline, nervures brown. 

 Abdomen smooth and shining. 



■■ c5' . Mandibles bidentate. Antenna? as in P. luood-masoni, but 

 the 2nd joint of the flagellum nearly twice as long as broad. For 

 the rest as in P. wood-masoni c5" , but the wings browner, the 

 whole colour of a more brownish yellow (head brownish), the 

 thorax more depressed, the pilosity of the tibia oblique." (ForeJ.) 



Lem/th, 11 3-3-2 ; ^1-5-2; $4-4-5; J 2-S-3-2 ram. 



Hah. Western India (Wrour/Jiion); Ceylon (Green); Burma 

 {Bine/ham). 



278. Phidole nietneri, Hmen/, J)euf. ent. Zdi. lOO], p. 118, 7/ ^ : 

 Ford, Rev. Suisse Zool. x (1902), p. 17'5, 1/ ; id. Jour. Bomb. 

 N. II. Soc. xiv (1902), pj). 531 & -■343. 



1/ . Brownish yellowy the head on the vertex, the pronotum 

 above, the 2nd node of the pedicel and abdomen brown, the 

 antennae and legs slightly lighter brownish yellow ; pilosity abun- 

 dant and comparatively long; head in front up to the vertex 

 longitudinally striate, the vertex and posterior portion of the head 

 smooth, polished and shining ; thorax irregularly sculptured, 

 punctured on the sides, transversely striate on the pronotum ; 

 the metanotum above shining, but with tine punctures ; pedicel 

 and abdomen polished and shining. Head longer than broad, the 

 occipital emargination moderately deep ; mandibles smooth, shining, 

 with a few scattered punctures ; clypeus medially slightly cariuate, 

 its anterior margin transverse ; antennae comparatively long, the 

 scape falHng short of the top of the head by about one quarter of 

 its length, antennal groove shallow and rather broad. Thorax 

 wide anteriorly, the ])ronotal tubercles obtuse but distinct, the 

 mesonotal transverse groove shallow, tlie ridge posterior to it rather 

 thick ; metanotal spines short, erect, acute. Pedicel : the 1st 

 node about twice as broad as long, rounded above, without an 

 appendix beneath; the 2nd node transversely fusiform, more than 

 twice as broad as the 1st node ; abdomen depressed, seen from 

 above cn*cular. 



" ^ . Brownish yellow, head darker, abdomen brown, mandibles. 



