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legs long, robust ; femora gradually clavate from base to apex, but 

 not as in &. bingliami, JE. ferqusoni and others, constricted near 

 the apex. Nodes of pedicel slightly longer than broad, coarsely 

 sculptured and opaque; abdomen highly polished, smooth and 



Fig. 18, 



shining, except at base where it is delicately rugulose and with a 

 few large shallow punctures. 



Length, 4'5-5'3 mm. 



Hob. Western India, Poona (WrougJiton), Kanara (Aitken~), 

 Travancore (Ferguson). 



A very distinct species. 



23. ^Enictus pachycerus, Smith (Eciton), Cat. vi (1858), p. 153, . 

 Typklatta beugalensis, Mayr,Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxviii (1878), 



jj.ees, 9. 



^Enictus bengalensia, Fore I, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xiii (1901), 

 pp. 465 & 476, ^ . 



. Castaneous red, the mandibles, antennas and legs very little 

 if at all lighter in colour. Head, thorax and abdomen with a few 

 scattered erect hairs ; antennae and legs slightly more pubescent. 

 Head broadly oval, as broad posteriorly as in front, very delicately 

 rugulose, subopaque or only slightly shining in certain lights. 



.Fig. 19. JEiiicttts 'pachi/cerus, 



Thorax rather broad, anteriorly convex, the pronotum delicately 

 rugulose like the head, the emargination at the meso-metauotal 

 suture very shallow and wide ; metanotuin more densely rugulose, 

 opaque, the colour sensibly darkening on the sides, above broadly 

 rounded, the apical portion steeply oblique, but not vertical, 



