PRENOLEPIS. 



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with 5 acute teeth, the apical tooth long and curved : clypeus 

 broader than long, medially vertically carinate, its anterior margin 

 transverse ; antenna) short, the scape barely extending beyond the 

 top of the head. Tliorax short and broad, deeply eraarginate at 

 the meso-metanotal suture ; the apical portion of the metanotum 

 very broad and flat ; legs robust, somewhat short. Node o£ the 

 pedicel thick, quadrangular, transverse above ; abdomen massive, 

 very convex above, short and broad, the anterior hollow that receives 

 the node of the pedicel not well-marked. 



Lenrfth, ^ 2 '0-3 mm. 



Hah. Bengal (Rothnei/) ; and throughout Burma and Tenas- 

 serim ( Watson tj- Binr/Juan). 



375. Prenolepis indica, Forel, Jour. Bomb. X. H. Soc. viii (1894), 

 pp. 407, 40S, & 409, ^ $ c? • 



^ . Brownish yellow, front of the bead darker, mandibles, 

 antenna) and legs paler, covered « ith rather abundant short, thick, 

 erect brown hairs, most dense on the front of the head and on the 

 abdomen ; pubescence extremely thin and sparse or wanting, o)ily 

 to be seen in certain lights. Head as broad as long, mode- 

 rately convex in front, transverse posteriorly, the posterior lateral 

 angles not produced, but distinct. Mandibles attenuate at base, 

 the masticatory margin oblique, armed with 5 teeth ; clypeus 

 broad, medially vertically subcarinate ; antennre moderately stout 

 and long, the*^ scape extending beyond the top of the head by 

 about one-quarter of its length. Thorax stout, deeply emarginate 

 at the meso-metanotal suture ; the pronotum and mesonotum 

 broad and convex, the basal portion of the metanotum very short, 

 the apical portion obliquely truncate, broad and flat. Node of 

 the pedicel low, flat, transverse above, fitting into a hollow in the 

 front of the abdomen, the latter oval, moderately Ijroad. 



2 . Dark brown ; mandibles, flagellum of the antcnnse and the 

 articulations of the legs paler. Wings hyaline tinged with 

 brown. 



cJ . Head and the mesonotum of the thorax brownish yellow, 

 abdomen darker, rest of the thorax and legs light yellow. 

 •• External genital valves narrowed at apex. Median vah'es very 

 large, the exserted external portion very long and pointed, the 

 inteDial much shorter a)Kl obliquely truncate at apex. Both are 

 armed with strong black teeth on the peripheral halves of the 

 margins opposite each other, and are straight and narrow. Internal 

 valves oval." (Forel.) 



Lenr/th, ^ 2-3 ; ? 5 ; c? 2 mm. 



Hub. Bengal (Bothnei/), Western and Central India ( Wrougltton), 

 Ceylon (Yerhur)/). 



376, Prenolepis yerburyi. Ford, Jour. Bomb. X. TI. Soc. viii (1894), 



pp. 406,408, .^ 4(y.), V o $• 



^ . Light brown, antoma) and legs slightly paler brown, 



