:myrmec()C\sxus. — myrmotebas. 



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Hub. Couliued vvitbiu our limits to the United Provinces, the 

 Punjab, and Central India, but extending westwards into Persia. 



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Fig. 94. — M//r,iiccoc7/sf/is ficfipcs, ^. ". Head from front ; h. Masillaiy palpus. 



The closely allied M. vlaticHS. Fabr., of which Dr. Forel con- 

 siders M. setipes a race, is found in North-eastern and Northern 

 Africa and Southern Europe. 



Specimens of an extremely pale-coloured variety of M. setipes- 

 are in the British Museum Collection, from the N.W.P. of India. 

 This variety is of a pale testaceous yellow all over, with the 

 abdomen shaded with fuscous. In structure and pilosity it agrees 

 with 31. setijies. 



Genus MYRMOTERAS. 



Myrmoteras, Forel, Jour. Bomb, i\'. II. Soc. viii (1S94), p. 418, ^ . 



Type, -il/. binrjliami, Forel, from Tenasserim. 



Rnnge. Procured so far only on thewestern borders of Tenasserim. 

 5 . Head remarkably large, very much broader than either the 

 thorax or the abdomen ; mandibles very long, about twice the 

 length of the head, linear and slend(>r, resembling somewhat the 

 mandibles of OJontomachiis, and armed similarly with teeth on 

 the iimer margin, but unlike the mandibles of Odoniornachus those 

 of Myrmotercis are articulated at the anterior lateral angles of 

 the head, and not close together in the middle of the anterior 

 margin ; clypeus subquadrate, lightly convex, its anterior margin 

 w^aved ; antennal cariute entirely wanting; antennae 12-jointed. 

 filiform, the scnpe remarkably long, about one-eighth only shorter 

 than the flagellum ; forehead very broad, ocelli present ; eyes 

 remarkably large, octcujjying tlu^ whole side of the head ; above 

 the ocelli the top of the head is transverse, the posterior portion 

 divided off by a curious deep wrinkle or transverse farrow. 

 Thorax resembles that of Qi!copluilla, constricted and hollow at 

 the mesonotum, saddle-shaped ; legs long, moderately stout. 

 Pedicel one-jointed, elongate ; node conical, rather flat at the top :^ 

 abdomen oval, convex above, about as broad as the ])ronotum. 



S n.nd 5 unknown. 



