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legs very little, if at all, paler. Head, thorax and abdomen 

 sparsely, antennae and legs densely pilose, the hairs oblique. Head 

 smooth, shining, rectangular, longer than broad, the sides very 

 slightly convex ; mandibles triangular, with broad toothed mastica- 

 tory margin ; antenna? massive but long, not short as in ^33. brevi- 

 cornis. Thorax anteriorly rounded, smooth and shining, above 

 convex, level, with the usual wide depression at the meso-metauotal 

 suture obsolete ; metanotum sculptured, opaque, striate on the 

 sides, passing with a rounded slope uninterrupted by a carina to 

 the apex ; legs long, femora clavate. Nodes of pedicel rounded 

 above, punctured, slightly subopaque ; abdomen oval, very smooth 

 and shining. 



Length, 3-3-5 mm. 



Hob. Western India, Poona (Wrouylitori). 



26. JEnictns peguensis, Emery, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xxxiv (1894), 



p. 452, $ ; Ford, Jour. Bomb. N, H. Soc. xiii (1901), p. 466, $ . 



$ . Closely allied to and resembling ^E. ceylonicus, Mayr, but 

 somewhat lighter in colour and slighter in build, the metanotum 

 is less rugosely sculptured, and the nodes of the pedicel are not 

 punctured nor opaque. Head rectangular, very broad posteriorly, 

 smooth aud shining. Thorax anteriorly polished and shining ; 

 metanotum finely and closely punctured, opaque not striate ; legs 

 as in jfi. ceylonicus, long, with the femora strongly clavate. Abdo- 

 men oval, polished and shining. 



Length, $ 2-3 mm. 



Hob. Burma (Fea) ; Tenasserim (BinyJiam). 



27. JEnictUB ceylonicus, Mayr (Typhlatta), Sitxungti. Akad. Wiss. 



Wien, liii, 1 AUh. (1866), p. 505, $ ; Forel, Jour. Bomb. N. H. 

 Soc. xiii (1901), pp. 466 477, . 



. Eesembles ^E. punensis, but is slightly darker in colour on 

 the thorax and lighter on the abdomen. Yellowish or brownish 

 red ; pilosity sparse on head, thorax and abdomen, fairly abundant 

 and erect on the antenna and legs. Head shorter proportionately 

 and wider than in JE. punensis, smooth and shining ; mandibles 

 narrow, tridentate ; antennae long and massive. Thorax very broad 

 in front, strongly compressed posteriorly ; pronotum smooth and 

 shining, very convex, almost gibbous above, meso-metanotal suture 

 very distinct ; metanotum rugosely striate, the basal portion short, 

 the apical portion vertical and separated from the basal portion by a 

 distinct carina above and on the sides ; legs long and robust, femora 

 clavate. Nodes of pedicel large, smooth and shining, conical ; abdo- 

 men oval, smooth, polished, shining, almost translucent. 



Length, g 2-3 mm. 



Hob. Nearly all continental India and Ceylon. 



A variable species ; var. latro, Forel, differs in haviny joints 

 2-4 of the flagellum of the antennse longer than thick (much 

 thicker than long in typical 2E. ceylonicus). Certain specimens 

 from Calcutta have a few longitudinal wrinkles on the pronotum 

 and nodes of the pedicel. 



