DOLICnODERUS. 



29r> 



entirely destitute of erect hairs, and in having a more or less 

 abundant tine silky pubescence, most dense on the abdomen. 

 Differs entirely in colour, is also larger and more stoutly I)uilt. 

 Head, thorax and abdomen black or dark fuscous brown, the 

 masticatory margin of the mandibles broadly yellow, and also the 

 apical joint of the tiagellum of the antennae, the lower part of the 

 head and the clypeus shaded with dark castaneous red, the legs 

 throughout of that colour. Head very finely and closely reticulate- 

 punctate, subopaque ; thorax irregularly punctured and wrinkled, 

 longitudinally and obhquely striate on the sides. Node of the 

 pedicel and the abdomeiT proportionately broader than in B.ferr.. 



Lenrjtli, ^ 6-5-7 mm. 



Hub. Througliout Burma and Tenasserim {Fea. Binr/ham). 



334. Dolichoderus bituberculatus, Mm/r (FIvpocHnea). Verh. zool.- 

 bot. Ges. Wien, xii (1802), p. 70o, ^ : Forel. Jovr. Bomb, N. H. 

 Soc. ix (1S9.J), p. 464, ^. 



^ . Head and thorax black, legs dark reddish brown, node 

 of the pedicel and abdomen dark brown, the latter posteriorly 

 nearly black ; head, thorax and abdomen covered with sparsely 

 scattered erect black hairs and a somewhat abundant fine silky 

 pale pubescence, very dense on the head, thorax and legs. Head 

 without the mandibles broadly oval, the cheeks and front strongly 

 convex ; mandibles triangular, the masticatory margin broad, the 

 teeth minute ; clypeus broad, slightly convex, its anterior border 



Fig. 89. — Dolichoderus hituhej-cuhtluii, g . a. Head from li-out. 



very slightly and widely emarginate ; eyes very flat, not pro- 

 minent, placed only slightly above the middle tr.-insverse line 

 of the head. The whole head densely punctured and opaque. 

 Thorax very coarsely cribrately punctured and wrinkled ; the 

 pronotum more or less flat and margined anteriorly ; the mesonotum 

 longitudinally sulcate, the sides raised into tubercles more marked 

 in some specimens than in others, the basal and the truncate 

 inwardly curved and concave apical portions of the metanotum 

 subequal, the sides of the metanotum flat, smooth, margined 



