370 rORMlClD.E. 



(5 . Yerv much smaller than the ? and darker, almost black ; 

 head triangular, very small, rounded posteriorly; thorax raised 

 and gibbous. Node of pedicel a little thicker ; abdomen much 

 smaller, oval. 



Len(/t7i, ^ maj. 10-11 ; ^ vvin. 7-9 ; 5 13-15 ; c? 7 mm. 



Hab. The North-west Himalayas {Smi/thies) ; also in Europe 

 and North America. 



432. Camponotus mendax. 



CampoDOtiLs seviceus, car. mendax, Ford. Jour. Bomh. N. II. Soc. 

 1x11895), p. 454, 5. 



^ maj. Head and legs of an obscure dull red, thorax, node 

 of the pedicel and abdomen brown ; the head sparsely, the thorax 

 and abdomen densely covered with a silky golden recumbent 

 pubescence, and also with fairly thickly-set pale yellow erect hairs. 

 Head massi\e, broad at tlie occiput, the lateral occipital angles 

 rounded but prominent ; mandibles with 6 teeth ; clypeus broad, 

 not carinate nor lobed, its anterior margin transverse, denticulate. 

 Thorax very broad in front, narrowing posteriorly, but the meta- 

 notum remarkably broad, its basal portion forming a regular cui've, 

 with the pro- and mesonotum and the apical half more steeply 

 sloped, obliquely truncate ; legs comparatively long, the tibiae 

 compressed and longitudinally channeled. Node of pedicel very 

 thick, strongly biconvex and transverse above ; abdomen large and 

 massive. 



2 . Black, opaque, the apical half of the mandibles, the anteniiiB 

 and apical joints of the tarsi reddish. Head smaller and squarer 

 than in the g maj. ; abdomen longer and more massive. Head, 

 thorax and abdomen with scattered pale erect hairs, but entirely 

 devoid of the beautiful golden pile so conspicuous on the ^ maj. 

 ^ mhi. Unknown. 



LengtJi, g maj. 10 ; $ 12 mm. 



Hah. Southern India, Mysore (WroiKjJiton). 



M. Forel regards this and another form, which he has named 

 var. integer, as varieties of C. sericeus, Fabr. I have described 

 C. mendax from specimens in Mr. AV'roughton's collection named, 

 I beheve, by M. Forel, and it seems to me a good species. C. in- 

 teger, Porel, is unknown to me, but is described as very like 

 C sericens, except that the thorax is equally convex anteriorly and 

 posteriorly, with no emargination at the meso-metanotal suture. 

 It is variegated with brownish and ferriigiuous. 



433. Camponotus japonicilS, llayr. Vcrh. zool.-hot. Ges. Wien, xvi 

 (1866), p. 885, ^ . 

 Camponotus berculeanus, Linn., suhsj). peusylvauicus, de Geer, var. 

 puuetatissimus, Emery, Ann. Mxis. Civ. Gen. xxxiv (1894), 

 p. 477, § ; Forel, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. is (1895), p. 455. 



g maj. Black, very closely and finely reticulate-punctate ; head 



