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111. Ponera confinis, Roger, Berl ent. Zeit. iv (I860), p. 284, $; 



Forel, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xiii (1900), pp. 325 & 327, $ . 

 Ponera simillima, Smith, Jour. Linn. Soc. v (1861), p. 105, . 



. Testaceous yellow, somewhat shining, covered with a line, 

 thin, sericeous pale pubescence; the legs pale yellow. Head 

 without the mandibles rectangular, longer than broad, widely but 

 very slightly emarginate posteriorly ; mandibles with the masti- 

 cafory margin very broad ; clypeus medially tuberculate ; eyes 

 very minute, placed just above the base of the mandibles. Thorax 

 more or less depressed above, the pronotum broad and slightly 

 convex, the mesonotum large, more than half the length of the 

 pronotum, the pro-meso- and rneso-metanotal sutures deeply 

 marked ; the basal portion of the metanotum very short, passing 

 by a curve into the oblique apical portion. Node of the pedicel 

 flat, broader than long, rounded above ; abdomen cylindrical 

 vertically, truncate anteriorly. 



$ . " Absolutely resembles the , head also shining. Wings 

 slightly brownish, with the nervures and stigma somewhat paler." 



Length, $ 3 ; $ 3'5 mm. 



Hob. Bengal (Ttotlmey) ; Western India ( Wroughton) ; Kauara 

 (Aitken) ; Ceylon (Green). 



Var. aiikeni, Forel, differs in being somewhat slighter, with the 

 node of the pedicel thinner ; the head and thorax slightly more 

 shining. Var. wroughtoni, JForel, is piceous in colour, with the man- 

 dibles, antennae and legs yellowish brown, and the basal portion of 

 the metanotum slightly more convex than in typical P. confinis. 



112. Ponera gleadowi, Forel, Mem. Ace. Bokg. (5) v (1887), p. 60,?; 



id. Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xiii (1900), pp. 325 & 327, . 



. Closely resembles P. confinis, Eoger, in colour. The head 

 is rectangular and proportionately longer, the eyes even smaller, 

 placed just above the base of the mandibles ; the antenna? more 

 clavate ; the thorax above more depressed ; the basal portion of 

 the metanotum rectangular, nearly square ; the node of the 

 pedicel is proportionately lower, much thicker, and flatter an- 

 teriorly and posteriorly. 



Length, $ 2-2-5 mm. 



Hob. Eecorded from Dehra Dun (Rogers) ; Bengal (Rothney) ; 

 Western India (Wroughton), Ceylon (Yerbury}, and Burma 

 (Bingliam). 



Genus PSEUDOPONERA. 



Belonopelta, pt., Forel, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxvii (1893), p. 460, $ . 

 Pachvchondyla, subgen. Pseudoponera, Emery, Ann. Soc. Ent. Bdy. 

 xlv (1901), p. 42. 



Type, P. nmblyops, Emery, from Burma. 

 Range. Indo-Malayan region. 



$ . Head rectangular ; mandibles long and narrow, obtusely 

 triangular, the masticatory margin strongly dentate, about the 



