17 



with the sides strongly curved and rounded, the posterior margin 

 transverse ; abdomen about as long as the head, thorax and 

 pedicel united, cylindrical, slightly enlarged towards the apex, 

 and curved downwards ; pygidium convex, entire. 



% . Reddish yellow, darkest on the head, smooth and shining, 

 with a few scattered erect pale hairs on the thorax and abdomen, 

 hairs on the legs a little more dense and oblique, almost recum- 

 bent. Head broadly oval, very convex in front ; mandibles 

 triangular, with a toothed masticatory margin. Thorax compara- 

 tively long ; pronotum broad and very convex; metanotum slightly 

 compressed, the apical portion nearly vertical, bordered by a fine 

 carina ; legs stout, long ; femora and tibiae cylindrical, the latter 

 attenuate at base, gradually clavate towards the apex. Nodes of 

 pedicel from above roundly oval, rather distant one from the other; 

 abdomen broad, convex, not depressed. 



Length, <$ 5-3-5-5 ; 2-5 mm. 



Hob. Western and Central India (Gleadow, Bethamand Wrougli- 

 ton) ; Travancore (Ferguson). 



A variety slightly lai'ger and more stoutly built, with a shorter 

 head and of a deeper yellow-red colour, procured at Dharmsala 

 in the Punjab, has been separated by Dr. Forel as var. 



18. JEnictus martini, Forel, Jour. Bomb. N, H. Soc. xiii (1901), pp. 464 

 & 473, . 



. Head, thorax, pedicel and abdomen dark castaneous brown, 

 almost black in parts ; mandibles, antennae and legs castaneous 

 red, the lateral spots on the head yellowish white, sometimes 

 reddish yellow ; pubescence almost wanting ; head, thorax and 



abdomen with a few scattered 

 erect hairs, the antennae and legs 

 densely hairy. Head somewhat 

 longer than broad and broader 

 in front than posteriorly, man- 

 dibles rather narrow, the apical 

 tooth acute and curved. Thorax 

 with the pronotum rounded and 

 convex, narrower than the head ; 

 the metanotum slightly com- 

 pressed, rounded above, deli- 

 cately rugulose ; legs with the 



... x femora incrassate in the middle, 

 Fig. 16.- 



thickening towards the apex. Nodes of the pedicel rounded, 

 convex; abdomen broadly oval, smooth, highly polished and 

 shining. 



Length, $ 3-3'5 mm. 



Hab. Upper Burma, Mayrnyo, 3000 ft. (BingJiam) ; Pegu 

 Toma ( Allan) j Tenasserim (Hodgson) ; extending to the Malay 

 Peninsula. 



