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Length, g 6-6'5 ; $ 7; d 4-5-5 nun. 



Hob. Western India ( Wrouyhton) ; Northern Africa, Tunis. 



The above is the description of the Indian form, var. indicus, 

 Forel, which differs very little from the true A. sedilloti, Emery, 

 described originally from Tunis in North Africa. The latter is 

 smaller, slightly darker, and with the sculpture, especially of the 

 head, somewhat more pronounced. 



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50. Anochetus taylori, Forel, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xiii (1900), 



pp. 60 & 63, . 



$ . Dark castaneous brown, shining, the mandibles, antennae, 

 region round the eye and legs ochraceous, the posterior lateral 

 angles and margins of the head, the node of the pedicel and the 

 constricted band between the basal two segments of the abdomen 

 rather lighter brown or brownish yellow. Head, thorax aud 

 abdomen with scattered erect pale hairs. Head longitudinally 

 finely striate in front, the striae divergent posteriorly, the poste- 

 rior lateral angles very highly polished, smooth and shining. 

 Thorax densely punctured, the punctures running into longi- 

 tudinal striae on the pronotum and into transverse striae on the 

 rest of the thorax ; the apical face of the metanotum margined on 

 the sides. Node of the pedicel and abdomen smooth and shining, 

 the former thick, convex in front, flat, almost concave posteriorly. 



Length, 4-5-5'3 mm. 



Hub. Western India, Poona, Belgaum, and the Nilgiris 

 ( Wrouyhton). 



51. Anochetus madaraszi, Mayr, Termesz. Fiizetek, xx (1897), 



p. 424, ; Forel, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xiii (1900), pp. 59 & 

 !,$<?. 



. Castaueous brown, shining : the mandibles, antennal carinse, 

 antennas, the elevations in front of and posterior to the eye, the 

 posterior lateral angles of the head, and the legs pale shining 



Fig. 27. Anochetus madarassi, ~Q . . Head; b. Mandible; c. Pedicel. 



yellow. Pilosity and pubescence almost entirely wanting. Head 

 without the mandibles neai'ly square, a little broader across from 

 eye to eye than across the posterior lateral angles ; front very 



