200 FoitMiciD-i:. 



297. Phidole feae, Kmenj, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen.wxw (1894), p. 4G9, 

 ;2/ 9 $ : Ford, Her. Suisse Zool. x (1902), p. 18.'>,1/ ; id. Jour, llomh. 

 N. H. Soc. xiv (1902), p. r,3(J. 



%. Of a liglit yellowish red all over; tlm Hiigelluni of the 

 antennct, the legs aud abdomen more yellowish, the last with 

 a slight brownish tint; ])ilosity pale reddish yellow, abundant ; 

 pubescence wanting except on the Hagellum of the antennse and 

 the tarsi, where, in certain lights, it appears dense but very short 

 and minute. Head I'ectangular, broader posteriorly than in front, 

 somewhat coarsely longitudinally striate, the strife breaking into 

 reticulations on the prominent, rather acute and divergent lateral 

 lobes ; mandibles massive, spai'sely punctured, masticatory margin 

 obsoletely dentate ; clypeus medially smooth, anteriorly emar- 

 ginate in the middle ; antenual carinas long, divergent posteriorly ; 

 antennal grooves beneath them shallow, as coarsely sculptured 

 as the rest of the head ; antenuge slender, short, the scape 

 reaching only about tv\o-thii-ds of the distance between their 

 insertion and the apex of the lateral lobes of the head ; eyes 

 small, lateral, placed well below the middle of the head. Thorax 

 short, transversely rugose, the pronotum rounded, the lateral 

 tubercles not at all prominent, the mesonotal transverse groove 

 broad and shallow ; basal portion of metanotum longer than 

 broad, with a shallow longitudinal medial groove ; metanotal 

 spines short, acute, erect. Pedicel short ; the 1st node squamiform, 

 transverse, petiolate in front, the petiole laterally dentate ; 

 2nd node transverse, laterally cone-shaped ; abdomen convex, 

 smooth and shining, broader in front than posteriorly. 



^ . Keddish yellow, head and abdomen with a brownish tint. 

 Head smooth and shining, broadly oval, rounded, not transverse 

 posteriorly ; eyes very pi'ominent ; mandibles comparatively long, 

 dentate ; antenna: long and slender, the scape passing by nearly 

 half its length beyond the top of the head. Thorax short, 

 anteriorly smooth and shining ; the metanotum minutely and 

 closely punctured, opaque ; metanotal spines short, erect and 

 acute. Pedicel : the 1st node transverse, the 2nd node rather 

 long, globose ; abdomen smooth and shining, broadly o^^al. 



?$. Dark brown, much darker than the 1/, the mandibles, 

 antennae and legs reddish brown ; the abdomen posteriorly 

 yellowish. Head coarsely longitudinally striate, short, much 

 broader than long, not at all or only very slightly emarginate 

 posteriorly ; antenntc very long, the scape passing a little beyond 

 the top of the head. Thorax massive ; the mesonotum flat, 

 somewhat irregularly and finely longitudinally striate, I'eticulate ; 

 metanotal spines thick, triangular. Pedicel short, the nodes 

 transversely striate : abdomen smooth and shining. 



Lenrjth, % 3-5-3-75 ; ^ 2-5 : § 4-5 mm. 



Hah. Tenasserim, Karennee {Feci). 



