246 fOBMioiDvi:. 



flagclliini of the anteniuc and legs (excepting the femora which 

 are hrownish) reddish yellow. Very shining, the pilosity long. 

 Head elongate, rectangular, with the postei'ior margin rounded, 

 cheeks minutely longitudinally sculptured. Clypeus vaulted, its 

 anterior margin arched. Mandibles finely denticulate. Antennal 

 carina* reaching up to the margin of the eyes. The scape ex- 

 tending beyond the top of the head, antennal joints 3-0 not 

 longer than broad. The thorax in profile has the ])ro- and 

 mesonotum arched. Pronotum smooth, laterally tuberculate. 

 Mesonotum above with shallow piuictures. 8ides of the meso- 

 and nietathorax and the epinotum densely punctured, opaque. 

 Epinotum above flat and with both sides obtusely rounded and 

 set with an acute erect spine. Pedicel somewhat smaller, and 

 with a less elevated node than in the 1/ . The post-pedicel trans- 

 versely oval, about as broad as the pedicel." (Ivmer^/.) 



Length, 2/ y*5 ; ^ 1*8 mm. 



Hah. Ceylon, Baudarawella (Horn); Burma, Pegu Yom^i {Alia a). 



The Burmese specimen, a 1/, which J have identified as this 

 species, is somewhat lighter in colour and with the thorax more 

 sliglitly sculptured. 



279. Phidole capellinii, Emen/, Ami. Mus. Civ. Gen. XXV (1887), 

 p. 4Go, footnote 1/. |j1. 1, fig. 14; Forel (var. asperata, Em.), 

 Rev. Suisse Zoot. x (190i>), p. 175, "2/ ; id. Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. 

 xiv (1902), pp. 531 & 54:i. 



1/ . Chestnut-red, the anTenna" and legs a shade lighter in colour, 

 abdomen brown, shading into black at the apex ; pilosity exceedingly 

 sparse, consisting of only a few scattered hairs ; pubescence absent. 

 Head large, elongate, much longer than broad, feebly striate in 

 front, reticidate on the rounded posterior lateral lobes ; the front 

 below the vertex and the clypeus remarkably flat, forming a plane, 

 vertex itself ^ith a shallow but distinct and broad transverse 

 impression; sides of the head very slightly convex, more or less 

 parallel, the occipital emai'gination deep, the posterior lateral 

 lobes large and not divergent ; mandibles massive, broad, shining, 

 striate at base ; clypeus anteriorly slightlj^ emarginate in the 

 middle, the portion between the antennal carina; posteriorly 

 distinctly limited ; antennal carina* slightly arched outwards, 

 widely divergent and long, the antennal grooves well-marked, 

 rugulose within. Thorax: the pronotum long, attenuate in front, 

 the lateral tubercles very prominent, the niesonotal transverse 

 groove shallow, the transverse ridge well-marked ; basal portion of 

 metanotum slightly oblique, depressed, the raetanotal spines short 

 and rather obtuse at appx. Pedicel : the nodes broader than long, 

 ti"ansverse ; abdomen broadly oval. 



5 . Somewhat lighter in colour than the 1/ . Head oval, with a 

 distinct ])osterior border, very slightly but perceptibly emarginate ; 

 front of the head and clypeus scarcely flattened as in tlie 1/, not 

 forming a marked plane ; antenna* stout and long, the scape 



