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coxae and femora of the legs slightly fuscous, the apical three 

 abdominal segments more or less testaceous yellow ; head, thorax 

 and abdomen with very short, sparse, erect pale hairs, and a fairly 

 dense silky pale yellow pubescence, which gives a dull opaque ap- 

 pearance to the whole insect but does not hide the sculpture ; the 

 latter consists of scattered rather shallow punctures, and more or 

 less piligerous points ; the punctures are most distinct on the node 

 of the pedicel. Head longer than broad ; mandibles punctured, not 

 striate ; clypeus transverse, slightly convex, not carinate ; antennae 

 massive ; head posteriorly widely and very slightly emarginate. 

 Thorax not so broad as the head, the pronotum convex, the 

 metanotum slightly compressed, rounded above, the truncated 

 apical face flat, not margined. Node of the pedicel thick, about as 

 long as broad posteriorly, slightly narrowing to the front, truncate 

 anteriorly and posteriorly ; abdomen massive, cylindrical. 



" d" . Head slightly more elongate and eyes slightly nearer the 

 base than in B. sulcata. Pubescence more dense. More shining. 

 Apical face of the metanotum a little more distinct. Wings barely 

 tiriged with yellow. The pronotum extending a little in front of 

 the mesonotum ; the mesonotal convergent furrows indistinct, 

 hypopygium not emargiuate. The rest as in B. sulcata." (Forel.) 



Length, $ 6'5-7 ; rf 5-5-6 mm. 



Hob. FromDehra Dun to Cochin (RotJmey) ; Ceylon (Yerbury}; 

 Assam (Smythies) ; Burma and Tenasserim (Fea 4" Bingliani) . 



119. Bothroponera sulcata, Frauenf. (Ponera) Verh, zool.-bot. Ges 

 Wien, xvii (1867), p. 441, ; Forel, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. 

 xiii (1900), pp. 323 & 326, $ J . 



$ . Dull black ; the mandibles, flagellum of the antenna), tibia? 

 of the legs towards the apex and tarsi castaneous red ; the scape 

 of the antennae, the femora and base of the tibiae fuscous. Head, 

 thorax and abdomen minutely and closely reticulate-punctate, 

 with scattered piligerous shallow punctures, covered all over with 

 fairly abundant long erect pale hairs and a dense fine sericeous 

 pubescence. Head without the mandibles a little longer than 

 broad, slightly emarginate posteriorly ; mandibles smooth and 

 shining, with a few scattered punctures, clypeus convex in the 

 middle and subcarinate. Thorax convex, rounded above, not so 

 broad as the head, narrowing towards the apex which is truncate, 

 but more obliquely sloping than in B. tesserinoda ; legs com- 

 paratively short, densely pubescent and pilose. JNTode of the 

 pedicel thick, about as long as broad, comparatively flat and 

 truncate anteriorly and posteriorly, greatly rounded and convex 

 above ; abdomen massive, cylindrical. 



" d 1 . Maxillary palpi 6-, labial palpi 4-jointed. Mandibles 

 rudimentary, rectangular, thin and flat, very far from meeting in 

 the middle. Antennae long ; scape very short, one and a half times 

 as long as broad. Head oval, large ; eyes and ocelli large. Pro- 

 notum vertical, not extending in front of the mesonotum. The 

 latter with two converging furrows. Pedicel surmounted by a 



