250 FOKMICID/E, 



longitudin:iI groove ; irietanotal spines long, suberect, curved and 

 acute. iVdii-el : the 1st node transverse above, emargiiiate and 

 subdentale, w ittiout appendix beneath ; 2nd node rounded above, 

 transversely oval, the lateral angles ])roduced and acute ; abdomen 

 very broadly oval. 



LciKjth, 11 4*5 5 mm. 



IJab. Uppi'r Burma, the Chin Hills. 



A few specimens, all 1/ 1/ , of this very distinct species were sent 

 to me by post, alive, in a joint of bamboo, by some unknown 

 correspondent. There Mas a pencil note with them to the effect 

 that they were taken crawling over a grave in a Chin village. 



2U]. Pliidole jucunda. Ford, J. A. S. JJ. liv, pt. 2 (1885), p. 179, 1/ ; 

 id. Hec. Stime Zool. x (l!)02), pp. 18U k 196,1/?; id. Jour. 

 Bomb. N. 11. Soc. xiv (1902), pp. 5:J5 ct 545. 



■}/, Brownish cinnamon-red, the abdomen brown; head coarsely 

 longitudinally striate ; thorax rather tinely but obscurely trans- 

 versely sculptured ; abdomen smooth, but dull and subopaque. 

 Pilosity very sparse, reduced to a few scattered hairs. Head nearly 

 square, the occipital eniargination moderately deep and wide; 

 mandibles minutely obscurely striate, with also a few distinct 

 punctures ; clypeus with a triangular medial depression bearing a 

 medial vertical carina ; antenna; comparatively long, the apex of 

 the scape falling short of the top of the head by about a third of 

 its length ; autennal groove deep and coarsely sculptured within. 

 Thorax : the prouotum convex, rather elongate anteriorly, the 

 lateral tubercles very obtuse and indistinct, mesonotal transverse 

 wroove and ridge well-marked; basal portiou of metanotum I'ect- 

 an^-ular, laterally margined ; metaiiotal spines short, stout, acute. 

 Pedicel: the 1st node squamiform, low, transverse above, with no 

 appendix beneath; the 2nd node transverse, sculptured, opaque, 

 laterally obtusely cone-shaped ; abdomen broadly oval. 



? . Hark ciniuxmon-red, the abdomen dark brown. Head and 

 thorax iinelv, closely reticulate-punctate, subopaque, abdomen 

 somewhat smooth and shining. Head oval, the antennae pubes- 

 cent, stout and long, the scape extending by about one-third of 

 its length beyond the top of the head. Thorax elongate, the 

 transverse mesonotal furrow and ridge well-marked, the former 

 deep and wide ; metauotal spines comparatively short, but stout 

 and very acute. Pedicel : the 1st node small, the 2nd node much 

 laro-er, rhombiform and rounded ; abdomeu opaque at base, smooth 

 posterior] V. 



Lewjtli^ll 4-4-5; g 2-2-5 nun. 



Hah. 8ikhim (Mol/er) ; Calcutta {liotline>j) ; Western India 

 {Wroiujhton) ; Ceyhn {Biuf/JuDn). The Ceylon form is paler with 

 the head a little longer and narrower, and the 2nd node of the 

 pedicel not so broad, but otherwise it does not seem to me to differ 

 from the typical form. 



