hair, the rest of the body with a very short, thin, fine, recumbent, 

 pale pubescence ; wings hyaline with a brownish tint. Head 

 much broader than long, the vertex raised, the ocelli prominent ; 

 the mandibles long, sickle-shaped, bearing at base on the inside a 

 rounded tubercle. Thorax massive, very gibbous in front, the 

 mesonotum with a short longitudinal carina above the base of the 

 wings on each side ; scutellum large, prominent ; postscutellum 

 narrow, sunk between the scutellum and rnetanotuni, the latter 

 truncate posteriorly. Node of the pedicel longer than broad, with 

 a strong gnomon-shaped keel beneath, convex above ; legs mode- 

 rately long, very smooth, polished and shining; abdomen cylindical, 

 long, twice the length of the head and thorax united, clavate towards 

 the apex and slightly curved downwards. 



maj. Castaneous yellow, highly polished, smooth and shining, 

 the head, thorax and abdomen with minute scattered punctures, 

 the head beneath near the mandibles and the apex of the abdomen 

 with a few erect yellow hairs. Head rectangular, much longer 

 than broad, and broader in front than posteriorly, the occiput 

 widely emarginate ; clypeus narrow, transverse ; antennal carinse 



Fig. 2. Doryliw labiatus, 



Fig. 3. Dorylus labiatus, min. 



short, very close together and prominent, no longitudinally 

 impressed line on the head. Thorax rectangular, depressed, slightly 

 constricted at the pro-rnesonotal suture : legs robust, short. 

 Node of pedicel longer than broad ; abdomen elongate, massive. 



min. Similar, smaller, lighter in colour. 



Length, d 30-33 ; maj. 6'6 ; min. 2'5-4 mm. 



$ unknown. 



Hub. The whole continent of India, not recorded from Ceylon 

 or from countries east of the Bay of Bengal. 



2. DoryhlS IsevigatllS, Smith (Typhlopone), Jour. Linn. Soc. ii (1857), 



p. 70, ; Fore!, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xiii (1901), p. 464, rf ? 



? Dichthadia glaberrima, Gerst. Stett. ent. Zeit. xxiv (1863), p. 93, <j> . 



? Dorylus klugi, Emery, Ann. Mm. Civ. Gen. xxv (1887), p. 448, cf . 



Dorylus (Typhlopone) breviceps, Emery, op. cit. xxvii (1889), p. 488, . 



3 . Dusky brownish yellow, with a long, fairly abundant, semi- 

 erect covering of yellow hairs, and beneath it, especially on the 



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