CAMPONOTUS. 373 



stout, tibiae more or less compressed and loiigitiidiiial!\- channeled. 

 Node of pedicel biconvex ; abdomen broad and massive. 



^ min. Similar, smaller and slighter, slightly more pubescent ; 

 head more elongate; legs comparatively longer, tibia) cylindrical. 



2 . Similar to the ^ maj. ; head more elongate and rounded 

 posterioi'ly. Node of pedicel thicker and broader, abdomen more 

 massive. 



d . Similar to the 5 , but with a very much smaller head, the 

 mesonotum with a medial and two laterally impressed longitudinal 

 lines ; head and thorax o])aque, dense!}- and \evy finely reticulate- 

 punctate. 



Length, ^ mcfj. 7-8 ; ^ min. 5-6*5 ; $ 8*5 ; J 6 mm. 



Bab. The Himalayas (/S';»////<«Vs) ; Upper Burma, the Shan States 

 at 4000 ft. {Bingham). 



438. Camponotus camelinus, Smith (Formica), Pi-oc. Linn. Soc ii 



(1857). p. .57, ^; id. (Formica). Cat. vi (1858), p. 23, ^; Forel, 

 Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. vii (1892), p. 224, ^. 

 Formica singularis, Smith, Cat. vi (1858), p. 27, ^ . 



^ maj. Black, covered with a thin brownish sericeous pile and 

 rather more densely with erect brownish hairs ; head, thorax and 



Fig. 118. — Ca/nponuius carneHniis, ^ maj. 



abdomen minutely reticulate-punctate, with a superposition of 

 minute scattered tubercles. Head oval, very convex in front, the 

 occiput constricted and narrowed into a neck ; mandibles with 

 7 teeth ; clypeus with a medial vertical carina ; median lobe broad 

 and !<lightly produced, its anterior margin waved. Thorax elon- 

 gate narrow, meso-metanotal suture emarginate ; legs very long, 

 the tibiae cylindrical. Node of pedicel rounded ; abdomen com- 

 paratively massive. 



^ min. Very similar. Head and abdomen much smaller. Node 

 of pedicel more globose. 



$ . Similar to the ^ maj., but more elongate and with a pro- 

 poi'tionately larger abdomen ; node of pedicel elongate oval. 



Length, ^ maj. 14-15; ^ min. ll-]2 ; $ 17 mm. 



Ilnb. Sikhim {Mailer) ; Burma ; Tenasserim {Bingham). 

 C. singular is. Smith, is only a variety of which the head is in- 

 variably of a blood-red colour. Both foi'ms are common in 

 Burma. 



