I'OLTHIIACHIS. 411 



prominent; clypeus convex, anteriorly roundetl. with a medial 

 vertical carina ; antennal carina) very wide apart. Thorax wide 

 in front, gradually narrowed posteriorly and slightly emarginate 

 on each side at the meso-metanotal suture ; pronotum arched 

 anteriorly, truncate in the middle of the anterior margin, armed 

 with a tooth on each side in the middle ; basal portion of metanotum 

 armed posteriorly with two stout erect short spines, apical portion 

 slightly concave; legs long, moderately stout, the tibia? without 

 spines. Pedicel nodiform, longer than thick, with a single medial 

 vertical spine, bimucronate at apex, and on either side of it and a 

 little in front a very much shorter spine ; abdomen broadly oval. 



$ . Similar, larger ; the thoracic spines shorter and stouter, the 

 lateral spines on the node of pedicel longer, very little shorter 

 than the medial spine, which however is shorter than in the ^ . 



•• c? • Brownish variegated with brownish yellow, flagellum of 

 the antennae darker. Shagreened, somewhat shining. Pedicel 

 with a node more or less bitubereulate or trituberculate at the 

 apex above."' (Forel.) 



Lem/ih. ^ 4-5-6 ; $ 8 ; J o'T-G mm. 



Sab. India : Bengal ( liothneif). Kanara ( Wroi(f/hton), Tra\ ancore 

 (Ferguson) ; Ceylon ( Ycrburt/) ; Burma, the Shan Sta.tes (Thomj^son) ; 

 Java. 



Var. lancearius, Forel. " Node of pedicel at least as thick as 

 wide, if not thicker " (Forel). Yar. javana. Mayr, has the pronotal 

 spines a little stouter and the pedicel spines subequal. There is 

 one specimen from Calcutta of this latter variet}- in the collection 

 of the British Museum. 



494. Folyrhachis fraiienfeldi, Ma>/r, Verh. zool-hoi. Ges. Jfim. xii 



(1802), p. «i87, ^ ; Ford, Joiir. Bomb. N. H. Sac. viii (1893), 

 p. 18,?. 



•' ^ . Length 8-9'o mm. Black, the apex of the flagellum of 

 the antennae and the tarsi brownish yellow. Pubescence nearly 

 wanting. Head, thorax and pedicel finely and closely punctured, 

 cribrate and opaque. Thorax not short nor high, quadrilateral, 

 with obtuse margins which are not incised. Pronotum with two 

 triangular obtuse teeth. Metanotum with two teeth pointing 

 outwards. Pedicel nodose above, thick, with a medial upwards 

 and posteriorly directed straight spine and two teeth. AbdomiMi 

 shining, finely transversely rugose coriaceous." (3Ia>tr.) 



Hob. Ceylon (aj>i(d Forel) ; Java {apud Mayr). 



Unknown to me. 



495. Folyrhachis Clypeata, Mm/r, Verh. zooL-hot. Gen. Il'icn. xii 



(1862), p. ()8;). 2 ; Forel, Jour. Bomb. X. H. Soc. viii (1893), 

 pp. 19 & 29, $ . 

 I'dlvrliacLis indicii, J/r/)//-, Vcr/i. zool.-bof. Gc!--. If'irn, x\ (1870), 

 p: 945, ? . 



? . Black ; the mandibles, except the apex, and the legs red ; 

 the antennae dark fuscous red ; the head, thorax and abdomen 



