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roKMiciDi:. 



.<"):}, Myrmoteras binghami, Ford, Jour. li<,mh. \. ll. Soc. viii 



(18!)4), p.4]<), V. 



^. Bright reddish brown, highly polished and shining; antennae 

 and legs yellowish brown, mandibles yellow. Pilosity very sparse, 

 confined to a few scattered erect solt pale hairs, pubescence nil. 

 Mandibles curved inwards at apex into an acute long tooth, armed 



Fig. ^b.~M!iniioicra.< hhiijliami, ^. ,i. I load . h. Mandible. 



■on the inner margin with altogether 11 teeth, of \\hich the apical 

 and three or four sul)apical are long and acute ; of the minute 

 teeth two are preapical, lying between the 1st and 2nd long tooth, 

 and the rest towards the base. For the rest the characters of 

 the genus. 



L/nf/th, ^ 7 mm., including the mandibles ; mandibles "2 mm. 



Ilab. Thaungyin Valley, Tenasserim. 



Dr. Forel considers that the enormous size of the eyes marks 

 this species as probably a tree-ant. 



Geniis ACANTHOLEPIS. 



l[ypoclini'a, pt., Mayr, Verh. zool.-hut. Vcr. IFicn, v (185-'5), p. o77, ^ . 

 Acantholepis, JIai/r, Eur. Form. 18G1, p. 42, (^ $. 



Type, A. frauenfeldi, Mayr, from Europe. 



Ramie. Pala)arctic, Etiiiopian, and Indo-Malayan regions. 



^ . Head without the mandibles quadrangular, somewhat 

 rounded above, the occiput not emarginate ; mandibles with the 

 masticatory margin oblique, dentate; cly]jeus broad and high, 

 shar])ly carinatc down the middle, dypeal and anteinial hollows 

 continent, large, frontal area small but distinct ; antennal carinae 

 short, wide apart, parallel; antenuio 1 l-jointed, liliform, the scape 

 4^1ongate, n^aching well bc^youd the top of the head ; eyes of 

 moderate size ; ocelli distinct, rather widely separated one from 

 the other. Thorax constricted at the mesonotnm ; the pronotum 

 Ijroad and convex anteriorly, somewhat compressed and seemingly 

 pinched up posteriorly ; pro-meso- and meso-metanotal sutures 

 distiuct; metauotum obtusely dentate on each side in the middle; 

 legs somewhat long and slender. Pedicel one-jointed, with a 



