32 rORMICID/E. 



" $ . Head rectangular, with the angles somewhat rounded and 

 the posterior border emarginate ; anteriorly the margin is lightly 

 rounded. The clypeus narrow, its upper and posterior margins 

 sharply arched ; it surrounds the antennal hollows, and connects 

 the base of the antennae from one side to the other with a fine 

 cariua. Eyes placed in the middle of the sides of the head. 

 A single ocellus in the middle of the front. The antennae are 

 placed very near the front margin of the head, springing out of a 

 narrow, sharp-edged groove ; they are 10-joiuted ; scape short, 

 about as long as the flagellum without the apical joint ; at the base 

 they are slender, thickening towards the apex. The first joint of 

 the' flagellum is somewhat longer than the others (excluding apical 

 joint) ; these are very close to one another and are broader than 

 long, increasing in thickness towards the apex. The apical joint 

 is very large, elongate, ovate, and as long as the rest of the joints 

 united. The mandibles are about one-quarter the length of the 

 head ; they are triangular, and their masticatory margin is long 

 but not dentate. 



" The thorax is nearly as long as the head with almost parallel, 

 sides, a little constricted anteriorly, without trace of transverse 

 sutures, posteriorly sharply truncate. This abrupt truncation (the 

 truncate face of the metanotum) is lightly concave with a sharp 

 border, and on the upper margin nearly triangular. 



" The pedicel is indistinct and carries two thick nodes ; the two 

 together are somewhat shorter and narrower than the thorax. 

 The 1st node is thick, nearly quadrate, but rounded all over ; 

 posteriorly more, anteriorly less steeply sloped and connected to 

 the thorax by a slender petiole. Anteriorly near the base, 

 situated on either side, is a small tooth, on the underside towards 

 the front a larger one. The 2nd node is equally thick, quadrate, 

 rounded, and from the side appears larger than the 1st, as on the 

 underside it surpasses the other. Both nodes are equally broad. 

 The abdomen is long, oval, moderately flat, the 1st segment being 

 distinctly the largest. 



" The legs are short. Femora and tibiae moderately broad, 

 all the latter appear to end in a pectinate spine. Claws 

 simple/' (Roger.) 



37. Oocersea fragosa, Roger, Berl. ent. Zeit. vi (1862), p. 249. 



" . Dark reddish ferruginous ; the antennae, mandibles and 

 legs much the same, but a little lighter ; the anterior margin of 

 the head and the base of the abdomen clear bright ferruginous. 

 The whole body, together with the antennae and legs, moderately 

 clothed with short, obliquely-erect, yellowish hairs. The head 

 and thorax thickly covered with large punctures which are often, 

 on the latter particularly, rugose and confluent. The nodes are 

 more feebly, the abdomen still more finely punctured/' (Roger.) 



Length, 2'8 mm. 



Hob. Cevlon. Unknown to me. 



