PUIUOLE. 



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posterior node of the pedicel transversely sculptured. Pilosity 

 similar to that in the 1/ but more sparse. Head very short, 

 without the mandibles mucli broader than long, particularly broad 

 posteriorly, and very broadly but not deeply emarginate. Thorax : 

 the mesonotum flat above, very gibbous in front, the pronotuni 

 well-depressed beneath it, the metanotal spines short and stout ; 

 the anterior node of the pedicel almost laminate with a sharj) 

 margin, and broader above than at base ; posterior node and abdo- 

 men proportionately as in the 1/ . Wings subhyalinc, nerviu-es 

 pale yellow. 



Length, % 4'o-5 ; ^ 3 ; $ 6 mm. 



Hah. Throughout Continental India and Ceylon. 



Var. tai>rohana', Forel, differs in having the head slightly larger 

 and more deeply emarginate. Yar. micantiventris, Mayr {apvil 

 Forel), has " the abdomen entirely opaque, finely striate-reticulate." 



284. Phidole horni, Emery, Deutsch. mt. Zeit. 1901, p. 118, 1/ : 

 Forel, Fev. Suisse Zool. x (1902), p. 18^, 1/ : id. Jour. Bomb. 

 N. H. Soc. xiv (1902), pp. o37 & 540. 



ll . Allied to and very closely resembling P. rhomhinoda, Mayr. 

 Differs in being slightly larger and in having the head longer, 

 narrower anteriorly, with the occipital emargination not so shallow. 

 Head, thorax and abdomen bright reddish brown, the last darken- 

 ing posteriorly, with the apical margins of the segments yellowish, 

 the antennoB and legs paler in colour. Pilosity, sculpture of the 

 head, and sculpture and form of the thorax as in P. rhomhinoda. 

 Pedicel proportional ely shorter, the 2nd node about as long and 

 about three times as broad as the 1st node. Metanotal spines 

 longer and more slender. For the rest as in P. rhomhinoda. 



Lenf/th, 1/ 5 mm. 



Hah. Ceylon {Horn 4' Green). 



Dr. Emery received this species from Bentota. I am not quite 

 certain whether the sohtary specimen of a 1/ described above 

 without any ^ or $ accompanying it, collected by Mr. E. E. 

 Green at Peradeniya, near Kandy, has been correctly identified. 



285. Phidole sulcaticeps, For/er, Berl. ent. Zeit. vii (1808), p. 193, 1/; 

 Forel, Fee. Suisse Zool. x (1902), pp. 178 & 195, % ^ ; id. Jour. 

 Bomb. N. II. Soc. xiv (1902), pp. 533 & 544. 



1/. Reddish brown, shining, the head and abdomen darker than 

 the thoi-ax, the antennae and legs brownish yellow, Pilosity 

 reddish, abundant. Head rectangular, as broad posteriorly as in 

 front, and longer than broad, longitudinally striate, the stria^ 

 curving laterally outwards and becoming transverse on the posterioi- 

 lobes, a distinct somewhat transverse depression on the vertex ; 

 mandibles smooth and shining, sparsely punctured : clypeus smooth 

 and slightly depressed in the middle, its anterior margin medially 

 incised; antennal carina^ short and rather prominent, antenna I 

 groove very marked, sculptured within and slightly widening at 



