PSEUDOPOWEBA. CENTEOMYRMEX. 93 



somewhat shining. Head emarginate posteriorly ; mandibles 

 longitudinally striate ; a distinct but very narrow and short im- 

 pressed line vertically on the front between the antennal carinae ; 

 eyes minute, concolorous with the surface of the head, not black. 

 For the rest the characters of the genus. 



. " Wings hyaline shaded with yellow : for the rest as in 

 the " (Forel). 



Length, $ 6 ; 7 mm. 



Hab. Sikhim (Mailer); Assam (Smythies); through Burma and 

 Tenasserin: (Pea) to the Malay Peninsula. 



114. Pseudoponera darwini, Forel (Belonopelta), Ann. Soc. Ent. 

 Belg. xxxvii (1893), p. 460, ?; id. (Belonopelta), Jour. Bomb. 

 N. H. Soc. xiii (1900), p. 320. 



5 . Brownish yellow all over, in some specimens darkening 

 on the head and thorax ; head, thorax and abdomen minutely 



and densely punctate, rugu- 

 lose and subopaque ; entirely 

 covered with very fine short 

 silky yellow pubescence, as in 

 P. amblyops most conspicuous 

 on the head in front ; pilosity 

 fairly abundant, long and 

 soft towards the apex of the 

 abdomen. Head without the 

 mandibles rectangular, nearly 

 square, slightly and broadly 



Fig. 48. Pseudoponera darwini^. emarginate posteriorly, the 

 a. Head. sides slightly convex, the 



posterior and anterior margins 



about the same breadth ; mandibles long, triangular, the masti- 

 catory margin armed with 7 teeth alternately large and small : 

 clypeus with the median lobe shorter and less pronounced than in 

 P. amblyops; eyes and ocelli large and conspicuous, the former 

 nearly touching the bases of the mandibles. Thorax, legs, pedicel 

 and abdomen with the characters as in the genus. 

 Length, 4*5 mm. 



Hab. Kanara ( Wroughton) ; Ceylon (Green). Described origin- 

 ally from "West Australia. Dr. JForel has separated the Indian 

 species as var. indica. It differs from the type (Australian) by the 

 shorter, squarer head. So far as I am aware, the is unknown. 



Genus CENTROMYRMEX. 



Ponera, pt., Jttiger, Berlin, ent. Zeit. v (1861), p. 5, 2. 

 Centromyrmex, Mai/r, Verli. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xvi (1866), 



p. 894, . 

 Spalacomyrmex, Emery, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xxvii (1889), p. 489, $ . 



Type, G. bohemanni, Mayr, from Brazil. 



Range. Central and Southern America, and Ceylon and Burma. 



