10 FOBMICIDJE. 



7. .ffinictus westwoodi, Forel, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xiii (1901), 



pp. 467 & 469. 



c? . Head jet-black and shining posteriorly ; the front, the base 

 of the mandibles, and the thorax brownish yellow ; the antenna, 

 legs and abdomen dull pale yellow. Head constricted behind the 

 eyes as in ^E 1 . ambiguus, and devoid of pubescence posteriorly, 

 the front covered with long pale yellow hairs ; mandibles long, 

 curved, acute at apex; scape of the antennae slightly clavate ; 

 flagellum a little thicker in the middle than at base and apex. 

 Thorax above not so convex as in ^E. ambiguus; the scutellum 

 prominent, its posterior lateral angles slightly produced ; meta- 

 notum with a very short, slightly oblique, but distinct basal portion ; 

 legs short, with the femora and tibiae cylindrical ; the thorax and 

 legs covered with a short, fine, yellowish-white pubescence. Node 

 of the pedicel a little narrower at base than at apex, deeply 

 grooved or concave above, carinate beneath ; abdomen very massive, 

 covered with a fairly dense, short, fine yellowish-white pubescence ; 

 the pygidiutn very convex, its base smooth and shining. 



Length, rf 9-10 mm. 



Hab. Western India ( Wroughton). 



Dr. Forel has described this as a mere variety of ^E. ambiguus, 

 but it seems to me to differ structurally. 



8. JBnictus pubescens. Smith, Cat. vii (1859), p. 10 ; Forel, Jour. 



Bomb. N. H. Soc. xiii (1901), p. 469. 



c? . " Length 3| lines (about 7*5 millim.). Eufo-testaceous, 

 densely clothed with pale pubescence : the head black and shining, 

 the mandibles and antennae rufo-testaceous ; the ocelli in a curve 

 on the vertex and situated on the side of a central elevation ; the 

 mandibles long and curved. The thorax obscure ferruginous ; 

 wings hyaline and iridescent, the nervures and stigma brown. 

 Abdomen densely clothed with long silky decumbent pubescence ; 

 the peduncle deeply concave above and channeled in the middle, 

 slightly rounded at the sides ; the peduncle of the same width as 

 the 2nd segment, the terminal segment obtuse. 



" Hab. Northern India." (Smitli.) 



I have quoted in full Mr. Smith's original description, as the 

 species is unknown to me except from the mutilated type in the 

 British Museum, which is minus the pedicel and abdomen. 



Another doubtful species is ^E. certus, described by Westwood 

 without locality (Arcan. Entora. i, 2 (1842), p. 79). The type is 

 in the British Museum, but is in very bad condition. Dalla Torre, 

 in his Catalogue of the Formicidce, gives the habitat of this species 

 as India ; but on what authority I do not know. I give a brief 

 description : 



^Enictus certus, Westw. 



d 1 . Closely resembles ^. ambiguus, Shuck., but is smaller and 

 lighter in colour. Head black ; thorax, legs and abdomen honey- 



