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Fig. 20.Sphincto 

 myrmex taylori, $ 



with partly erect, short pale hairs ; pubescence almost entirely 

 absent. Head, thorax, node of the pedicel 

 above and basal abdominal segment some- 

 what coarsely punctured, most densely 

 on the head and basal abdominal segment, 

 and very sparsely on the thorax above, 

 which is smooth and shining. Head longer 

 than broad, emarginate posteriorly ; man- 

 dibles densely punctured ; antenna! hollows 

 margined on the outside by an arcuate 

 carina ; antennas very massive and thick. 

 Thorax with the basal face of the meta- 

 notuin passing into the apical face by an 

 abrupt curve, the latter margined only at 

 the sides, not above. Node of the pedicel 

 about as broad as long, slightly rounded 

 at the corners, convex above : abdomen : 

 the 2nd and succeeding segments with 

 fine, rather scattered punctures ; pygidium 

 concave, incised at apex, and with the lateral margins spinulose. 



Length, 5-5*5 inrn. 



Hab. Bengal (Taylor). 



Genus LIOPONERA. 

 Lioponera, Mat/r, Verli. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxviii (1878), p. 666. 



Type, L. lonyitarsus, Mayr, from India, Bengal. 

 Range. India and Sumatra, probably the whole Indo-Malayan 

 region. 



$ . Head ovato-rectangular ; mandibles triangular, compara- 

 tively large, masticatory margin broad, obsoletely dentate : 

 clypeus very narrow, transverse ; antenna! 

 carinae short, prominent, very close together ; 

 antenna 12-jointed, scape and flagellum 

 both incrassate towards the apex; eyes 

 round, proportionately very large, placed 

 forward on the sides of the head close to the 

 base of the mandibles ; head posteriorly 

 transverse. Thorax short, rectangular, 

 transverse in front, truncate posteriorly, 

 the sides flat ; the pro-meso- and meso- 

 metanotal sutures obsolete ; legs stout, 

 elongate, the tarsi especially so ; the femora 

 and tibiae cylindrical. Pedicel one-jointed, 

 with the node nearly square, very slightly 

 convex above, broader than long, truncate 

 and slightly concave- in front, transverse 

 posteriorly ; abdomen comparatively long, 

 longer than the thorax, the constriction between the basal two 

 segments very deep. 



Fig. 2\.Lioponer 

 longitanta, 5 . 



