neio genera and species of Tenehrionidcc, §'c. 279 



2. Body black, tinged with teneous; eyes laterally projecting bej-ond their 



orbit.. .. .. .. .. ..11. connexus,n. s^. 



3. Body partly or entirely of brilliant metallic colours. 



G. Prothorax and elytra concolorous, or nearly so. 

 H. Elytra gently convex. 



e. Species smaller (G to 6^^ lines); prothorax subcylindric; 

 lateral margins obsolete; apical angle indistinct; eyes 

 laterally projecting beyond their orbit; colour golden- 

 brassy or brassy-green .. \2. 2)ulchrlpes,n. s\}. 

 e.e. Species larger (9 lines); prothorax narrowing anteriorly 

 from behind the middle ; lateral margins distinct 

 throughout ; apical angles distinct ; eyes normal ; 

 colour golden-seueous, with strong violet reflections. 



13. atro-tenescens, Fairm. 

 II. H. Elytra gibbous .. .. . .H. ffibhij}ennis,n. sp. 



G.G. Head and prothorax dull indigo-blue, or bluish-black; elytra 

 glittering coppcry-ajncous . . 15. diiuidlatus, CO. Wnteih. 



D. Klngii, Casteln., is not known to me ; judging from 

 the brief description given it most nearly approaches D. 

 longicornis, Fairm. D. Klugii, Sol., most nearly ap- 

 proaches my D. rmicronatiis, but it is very considerably 

 larger, and (jiidging from the figure given) the apex of 

 the elytra is more produced and much more strongly 

 divaricate and pointed. Solier's species must be quite 

 different from Castelnau's, as a comparison of the two 

 descriptions, and the figure given by Solier, will amply 

 prove. 



I have not seen any species that will at all accord with 

 Castelnau's description of D. striatus. 



Dolichoderus acuminatus, Klug. 



This species may readily be distinguished fi-om all the 

 following by the head longer and more narrowed in front, 

 and not squarely truncated on a level with the insertion of 

 the antennaj ; the prothorax not thickly margined at the 

 base ; the anterior femora in the $ broadly channelled 

 and coarsely pilose on their inner face. 



Dolichoderus mucronatus, n. sp. 



9 . Entirely (including legs and antenna) black, very 

 nitid ; head quadrate, a little narrowed in front of the 

 eyes, very broadly truncated in front, somewhat finely 

 and not very closely punctured ; epistoma extremely short, 

 nearly smooth, the suture distinctly im])ressed : ])rothorax 

 moderately convex ; sides gradually (and slightly cur- 

 vedly) expanded from apex to near the base, thence be- 



