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oblique, truncate at apex, the sides produced and rounded, obtuse. 

 Node of the pedicel as high as the metanotum, smooth and 

 shining, conical, rounded above ; abdomen highly polished, smooth 

 and shining. 



Length, 4-5 mm. 



Hob. Lower Burma, Palon near Rangoon (f'ea) ; Pegu Yoma 

 (Bingham). 



'I am not quite certain whether I have identified this species 

 correctly ; the one specimen that I procured has not got the disc 

 of the pro- and mesonotum smooth, but in other particulars, espe- 

 cially in the smallness of the eyes and in colour, it agrees fairly 

 well with Dr. Emery's description of his A. my ops from Burma. 



46. Anochetus rudis, Emery, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xxvii (1889), 



p. 499, ; Ford, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xiii (1900), p. 60, . 



. Resembles A. jnmctiventris, Mayr, but is considerably 

 larger and more stoutly built. Dark brown, the mandibles, 

 antennas, and the whole head, except in the hollows, the legs and 

 the apical margin of the basal abdominal segment reddish castaneous. 

 Head, thorax and abdomen deusely pilose and pubescent ; the head, 

 thorax, node of the pedicel and base of the 1st abdominal segment 

 densely punctured, rugose and opaque ; on the head and the 

 thorax anteriorly in certain lights the punctures seem to run into 

 longitudinal striae ; the rest of the abdomen and the legs polished, 

 smooth and shining. Head with a very narrow median space 

 posteriorly, smooth in some specimens ; thorax with the posterior 

 apical obliquely truncate face of the metanotum submargined and 

 coarsely transversely striate. 



Length, $ 4*5-6 mm. 



Nab. Burma, Mandalay (Fea) ; Ceylon, Kandy (Bingham). 



I am not quite sure whether I have identified this species 

 correctly. Specimens I have from Ceylon agree fairly well with 

 Dr. Emery's very brief description. 



47. Anochetus punctiventris, Mayr, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxviii 



(1878), p. 6o9, $ ; Ford, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xiii, pp. 59 & 63 

 (1900). 



$ . Brownish ferruginous, the abdomen conspicuously darker, 

 the mandibles and legs lighter in colour. Head, thorax, and 

 abdomen with a few scattered pale hairs, erect on the head and 

 thorax, depressed and oblique on the abdomen ; pubescence 

 absent. Head posteriorly not so deeply emarginate as in some of 

 the other species, convex in front, closely and regularly punctured, 

 the punctures liner and more sparse on the mandibles and scape 

 of the antennas : the preapical inner margin of the mandibles 

 minutely serrate. Thorax densely punctured, obliquely truncate 

 posteriorly, the apical face of the metanotum conspicuously 

 margined at the sides. Node of the pedicel ovate, rounded above, 

 smooth; abdomen stout, the basal segment densely punctate in 

 front. 



