324 FORMICID.^. 



368. Plagiolepis jerdoni, Forol. Join-. Jiomh. X. H. Soc. viii (1894), 

 Y\K 4ir) \- 41(i. 'i^. 



"^ . Pitch-black or bi'ownisli black, the antenna) and the tibia' 

 and tarsi of the legs brownish y(41o\v, the coxod and femora dusky 

 black ; head, thorax and abdomen siibopaque. almost without 

 pilosity, but with moderately abundant whitish pubescence, thin 

 and silky : there are a few erect hairs on the front of the head and 

 the apex of the abdomen. Head without the mandibles a litth' 

 longer than broad, transverse, widely but very slightly emarginate 

 posteriorly, the lateral angles of the occiput somewhat prominent : 

 mandibles subtriangular. rather small, clypeus shining, convex, 

 carinate ; antennte slender, extending slightly more beyond the 

 top of the head than in P. ccifftia. Thorax short and broad ; 

 pronotum large, convex ; mesonotum from above circular, convex ; 

 meso-metanotal emargination well-marked : metanotum nearly as 

 broad as the pronotum, basal portion very short, not half the 

 length of the oblique, declivous apical portion. Node of the 

 pedicel low, transverse above, strongly inclined to the front ; 

 abdomen oval. 



Lew/th, ^ 1*3-1*5 mm. 



Hah. Western India {Wrougliton) ; Tra^ancore (Fergtison). 



369. Plagiolepis rogeri, Ford, Jour. Bomb. K. H. Soc. viii (18!»4), 

 pp. 415 iV 417, 5 . 



^ . Very similar to F. jerdoni in colour, but the head is very 

 finely and very distinctly longitudinally striate, and both pilosity 

 and pubescence are more abundant, the latter especially dense on 

 the scape of the antennoe and the tarsi. Head slightly longer than 

 in P. jerdoni, with the posterior margin transverse but not emar- 

 ginate and with the lateral occipital angles less prominent ; man- 

 dibles triangular, broader ; clypeus more distinctly carinate, opaque, 

 not shining. Thorax narrower, the pro- and mesonotum not so 

 convex, the meso-metanotal emargination shallow and not so well- 

 marked as in P. jerdoni. Node of the pedicel and abdomen similar 

 to those of F. jerdoin. the former very strongly inclined to the 

 front. 



Leuf/tli, ^ 1"5 mm. 



Hah. Western India, Kauara (^Wroin/Jiton) ; Tenasserim, Mergui 

 (Bine/ham). 



370. Plagiolepis pissina, Eoffer, Berli^i. ent. Zt'if. vii (1863), ]>. 102, ^ ; 

 Fore/, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. viii (1894), p. 417. 



" g . Nearlv l"o mm. long. Very similar to P. jtt/r/meva, Latr. ; 

 very shining, pitch-black or pitch-brown, legs brownish, antenna) 

 more yellow ; one specimen is light brown with blackish abdomen. 

 Pilosity very sparse, consisting of one or two erect hairs on the 

 abdomen, and a few short adpressed hairs on the head. Mandibles 



