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19. JEnictus fergusoni, Forel, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xiii (1901), 



pp. 465 & 473, $ . 



$ . Eeddish brown or piceous brown, the lateral yellow spots 

 on the head placed high up but not so high as in JB. martini ; 

 the head, thorax and abdomen with scattered semi-erect pale 

 hairs, more dense on the antennae and legs. Head smooth, 

 shining, very broad posteriorly, as broad as in front ; mandibles 

 broad, armed with minute teeth. Thorax very convex in front, 

 rounded above; the pronotum smooth and shining, the emargination 

 in the middle of the thorax very distinct, wide and shallow ; the 

 metanotum delicately rugulose, the basal portion short, shorter 

 than in ^E. Iceviceps, the apical portion vertical, bordered by a 

 carina above and on the sides ; legs robust, moderately long, the 

 femora strongly clavate, the tibiae less so. Pedicel long, the nodes 

 rounded, smooth and shining; abdomen oval, anteriorly at its 

 junction with the posterior node of the pedicel constricted into 

 a short neck. 



Length, $ 3-5-4-5 mm. 



Hob. Travancore (Ferguson} ; Western India, Surat ( Wroiightori) 

 Sikhim ( Wroughton) ; Burma (Hodgson). 



Dr. Forel has described three varieties of this species : var. 

 piltzi, Western India, which has the emargination in the thorax 

 very marked and profound; var. hodgsoni, the Burmese form 

 from a hot moist locality, naturally darker, and slightly larger ; 

 and var. montanus, from Sikhim, approaching much closer to 

 ^E. Iceviceps, having the anterior node of the pedicel sculptured 

 and rugose. 



20. TEnictus laeviceps, Smith (Typhlatta), Jour. Linn. Soc. ii (1858), 



p. 79, ; Forel, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xiii (1901), p. 465, . 



. Black or dark castaneous brown, the mandibles, antennae, 

 and legs reddish brown ; head, thorax and abdomen covered with 

 sparsely scattered long soft hairs. Head oval, highly polished, 

 smooth and shining, with lateral yellowish-white spots as in 

 JS. martini, but lower down on the side of the head not forming 

 tubercles ; mandibles obsoletely finely striate at base ; clypeus 

 carinate ; antenna? massive, somewhat pilose ; antennal hollows 

 deep and wide. Thorax : the pronotum highly polished, smooth 

 and shining, the meso- and metanotum punctate-reticulate, opaque ; 

 legs smooth, rather long and stout. Pedicel with the 1st node 

 slightly reticulate-punctate, but shining ; 2nd node and rest of 

 the abdomen highly polished and shining. 



Length, $ 3-5-3-8 mm. 



Hob. Assam (Smythies) ; Upper Burma, Southern Shan States 

 (Thompson)', Borneo; Celebes. 



21. JEnicfrus binghami, Forel, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xiii (1901), 



pp. 465 & 474, . 



$ . Black ; the mandibles, antennae, legs, posterior node of 

 pedicel, base and underside of the abdomen castaneous red. 

 Head, thorax and abdomen covered with scattered erect hairs, 



