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fine longitudinal rugae. Antennal scapes and legs sparsely 

 punctate. 



Hairs on the head, thorax and gaster yellow, erect, delicate, 

 pointed, very sparse; on legs and scapes short and appressed. 

 Pubescence sparse, distinct only on the gaster. 



Dark brown, base of gaster, thorax, petiole and postpetiole 

 more reddish and paler, especially on the sides, head darker; 

 clypeus and cheeks red : mandibles red, with black borders ; 

 posterior edges of gastric segments reddish or yellowish ; antennae 

 and legs brownish yellow or testaceous. 



Worker. Length 1*3 — I'.s mm. 



Head much smaller than in the soldier, scarcely longer than 

 broad, with rather convex sides and nearly straight posterior 

 border. Clypeus not bicarinate, its anterior border entire or very 

 feebly and sinuately excised. Frontal area and eyes very small, 

 the latter consisting of only two facets. Antennae similar to those 

 of the soldier, but their scapes reaching to the posterior corners of 

 the head. Thorax like that of the soldier, more than half as 

 broad as the head, the pronotum somewhat less convex, the 

 mesonotum without a transverse impression, the base of the 

 epinotum convex and the teeth reduced to mere minute angles. 

 Petiolar node rounded and conical, not compressed anteropos- 

 teriorl5\ 



Whole body smooth and shining, finely and very sparsely 

 punctate, sides of epinotum and peduncle of petiole finely reti- 

 culate-rugose. 



Pilosity similar to that of the soldier but the erect hairs much 

 sparser and shorter. 



Colour paler than in the soldier ; body yellowish brown ; 

 antennae and legs paler, head and gaster somewhat darker. 



Described from numerous soldiers and workers taken at Kobo, 

 400 ft. ; " in rotten wood. 



This species is closely related to the other described species 

 of Aneleus [pygmaeus , Emery from Ternate, similis, Mayr from the 

 Nicobar Islands, minimus, Emer}^ from Beliao Island and sarasi- 

 nortim, Emery from Celebes). It differs in its greater size, in 

 sculpture and pilosity from minimus, in its smaller size and in 

 sculpture and colouration from pygmacus and sarasinorum. , and from 

 the latter also in lacking conical projections on the posterior 

 corners of the head in the soldier. Only the worker of similis is 

 known, but this has a bicarinate and deeply excised clypeus and 

 its colour is paler than that of the worker aborensis. 



13. Crematogaster rogenhoferi, Mayr. 



Numerous workers from Rotung, 1400 ft., and Dibru- 

 garh, N.E. Assam. 



14. Crematogaster hiroi, Mayr var. aitkeni, Forel. 



Many workers from Upper Rotung, 2000 ft.; "" under 

 leaf-stem of plantain." 



