414 



rOEMICID.'E. 



Hah. Burma ; Tenasserim up to 5000 ft. {Feci (Sf Binr/Jiam). A 

 comiiiou species in the Pegu Toma, making comparatively large 

 uests among the leaves of trees. 



498. Polyrhachis rastellata. Latr. Hist. Nat. Foiunt. 1802, p. i.JO. 5 : 

 FureU Jonr. lioml,. N. H. Soc. viii (1893), pp. 21 & 30, ^ . 

 l*olvihachi.s busiiis ifc ourvahis, Smith, Journ. Linn. Soc. v (1861), 

 p."98, pi. 1, lig. 15, 5 , .^ vii (1803), p. 10. ^ . 



^ . Black : the coxae, femora and tibia? of the legs blood-red, 

 the anterior coxa> shaded with fuscous, the tarsi opaque, black. 

 Head, thorax and abdomen shining, polished and smooth; recum- 

 bent pubescence nil, pilosity very sparse, short and scattered. 



Head triangular, very broad 

 posteriorly, the vertex and 

 occiput rounded ; clypeus 

 convex, not carinate an- 

 teriorly, broadly emarginate 

 in ttie middle ; anteunal 

 carinas widely divergent 

 posteriorly. Thorax A'ery 

 convex and rounded above 

 viewed from the side, 

 strongly arched and gibbous 

 anteriorly; pro-mesonotal suture distinct : meso-metanotal suture 

 obsolete; legs moderately long, smooth, not spiued. Node of 

 pedicel thick at base, sloping rapidly to a sharp margin above, the 

 latter armed with four subequul acute teeth or spines, the median 

 two close together and vertical; abdomen globose, very convex 

 above. 



$ . A'ery similar to the ^ , but the thorax very broad and 

 massive, the node of the pedicel entirely unarmed and the abdomen 

 larger. 



Length, ^ 5-6*5 ; 5 8 mm. 



Hah. (South Konkau ( Wrour/hton) ; Kanara (Aitl-en) ; Ceylon 

 (Yerhury):, Burma: Tenasserim {Bingham); Siam ; Sumatra; 

 Borneo. 



Fig. 145. — I'oh/rhuchts rastellatu, ^. 



