368 roK.MiciD^:. 



recumbent white pubescence, and more spiirseiy with longer erect 

 pale yellow hairs. Head elongate, occiput rounded and sloped 

 posteriorly, but sliglitly wider posteriorly than anteriorly ; man- 

 dibles comparatively broad, with 5 teeth ; clypeus broad, convex, 

 strongly cariuate down the middle and sublobed ; antennae long 

 and somewhat thick. Thorax proportionately rather broad, the 

 mesonotuiu large and sh'ghtly gibbous ; legs long and robust, 

 the tibite cylindrical. Node of pedicel thick, biconvex, the upper 

 margin rounded and fringed with long erect hairs ; abdomen 

 broadly oval. 



Lemjth, ^ )iiaj. (i"5-7 ; ^ min. l3"5-5 mm. 



Hah. Upper Bui'ma, Mandalay ( BiiujJiam) ; Tenasserim (Hodr/son ). 

 I did not procure the ^ maj. and quote Dr. i^oi'el's description. 



429. Camponotiis crassisquamis, Ford, Ann. Soc. Ent. Beh/e, xlvi 



(1002), p. 2S(), '^ maj. et i^ min. 



5 maj. Tuscous black ; the abdomen with a bluish metallic 

 reflection as in Lohopelta chinensis, and the margins of the 

 segments yellow ; the lateral occipital angles, masticatory margins 

 of the mandibles, the flagellum of the antennse and the legs 

 reddish brown. Pilosity reddish yellow, long and abundant, 

 especially on the front of the head and the abdomen above ; 

 pubescence, except on the flagelluni of the antenna? where it is 

 sparse, entirely wanting. Head reticulate-punctate, subopaque, 

 longer than broad, the occiput slightly emavginate, nearly trans- 

 verse, the cheeks very conA^ex ; eyes lateral, placed somewhat to 

 the front ; mandibles dull, subopaque, with a few coarse punctures ; 

 clypeus longitudinally medially carinate for one-third of its 

 length from base, the median lobe shortly produced and rect- 

 angular ; antennae long and slender, the scape extending beyond 

 the top of the head by about a fourth of its own length. Thorax 

 i-eticulate-punctate, subopaque, strongly compressed posteriorly ; 

 legs long and slender, the tibia> not spinous beneath. Node of 

 pedicel very thick in profile, triangular, with a rounded top and 

 not high, its upper margin lower than the dorsum of the meta- 

 notum ; abdomen massive, broadly oval. 



5 min. Eesembles the ^ maj., but is smaller and with a 

 proportionately smaller head, which viewed from the fi'ont is oval 

 Avith the occiput rounded ; the abdomen is shorter, roundly oval 

 and very convex. 



Length, ^ maj. S ; '(^ min. 5-5-6'5 nun. 



IJab. Assam (Smytliies) ; Bhamo, Upper Burma (Bingham). 



The Burmese specimens vary somewhat in colour, one ^ niaj. 

 has the head and thorax dull red, somewhat like O. mfogJaucus, 

 but then it lacks the fine silky pubescence of the latter, and 

 from the shape of the node of the pedicel it is clearly C. crassl- 

 squamis. 



