PRENOLEPIS. 331 



below the level of the thorax and abdomen, the latter very massive 

 and gibbous in front. Wings subhyaline, ner^'nres brownish 

 yellow. 



c? . Brownish yellow, antenna? and legs paler yellow. Head 

 OA'al : eyes and ocelli very prominent. Thorax a little broader 

 than the head, the raesonotum broad and gibbous in front ; wings 

 as in the $ . " Genital valves small, pale in colour. The ex- 

 terior valves constricted at th(^ apex, with a very narrow appendix 

 above, and below terminating in a slightlv protuberant angle." 

 {Forel.) 



g . Unknown. 



Lcnrfth, 2 ^ little over 4 ; c? 1'5 mm. 



Hah. Kecorded as yet only from Dehra Dun, Xorth-West 

 Provinces of India {Smi/thies) . 



37S. Prenolepis birmana. Fon-I, Ann. Soc. Ent. Beh/. xhi (1902), 

 p. 291. 



^ . Head and abdomen black ; thorax fuscous dark brown, 

 auteunne and legs a shade paler ; apex of the mandibles and tarsi 

 yellowish ; the metanotum posteriorly polished and shining, the 

 remainder of the head, thorax and abdomen more or less opaque 

 or subopaque, finely and very closely reticulate, the abdomen in 

 certain lights shining in parts. Pilosity moderatel}^ long and 

 abundant, the tibia? and scapes of the antenna' with more or 

 less dense recumbent hairs. Head without the mandibles rect- 

 angular, with a distinct posterior margin ; mandibles narrow, the 

 masticatory margin armed with 5 teeth ; clvpeus naiTow, convex ; 

 antenna? long and slender; eyes small, placed a little lower than 

 the middle of the head. Thorax as in P. longicorms, but more 

 stoutly built, the meso-metanotal suture deeply impressed. Xode 

 of pedicel and abdomen as in P. lon<jicornis, but the latter 

 more truncate and not projecting anteriorly so much over the 

 node. 



Length, ^ 3 mm. 



Hah. Tcmasserim. Moulmein {Hodgson) ; Tavoy (BingJiam). 



379. Prenolepis naorojii, F(n-cl, Ann. Soc. Ent. Beli/. xlvi (1902), 

 11. 290. 



^. Head, thorax, the coxa;, femora and tibia; of the legs 

 yellowish brown ; abdomen brown ; antcnmc and the tarsi pale 

 yellowish; very smooth, polished, and shining, in certain lights 

 the abdom<'n minutely reticulate ; pilosity yellowish, fine and 

 remarkably long, the scape of the antenna? and the tibiae with 

 shorter obhque hairs. Head broadly oval ; mandibles pilose, 

 shining, the masticatory margin armed with teeth ; clypeus 

 convex, broad, anteriorly rounded, medially longitudinally carinate ; 

 antenna? proportionately as long almost as in P. longicomls, the 

 scape extending beyond the occiput by more than half its length ; 



