BOTIIROPO^ERA. MESOPONERA.. 99 



high and very thick node, a little broader than long, subtruncate 

 anteriorly and posteriorly, and rounded above. Abdomen elongate 

 and narrow, constricted after the first segment. Pygidium with a 

 long carved point. Hypopygium nearly flat, emarginate at apex. 

 Exterior genital valves rounded, rather small. Thorax somewhat 

 massive. The whole insect opaque, finely punctured ; wings 

 feebly tinged with yellow and pubescent." (Forel.} 

 .Length, 8-ll ; 5; <$ 10-1O5 mm. 



Hob. N.W.P. India (Smythies); Bengal (Rothney); Central 

 India (c/mrr); and Western India (Wroughtori). 



Dr. Forel has described two varieties under the names sulcato- 

 tesserinoda and fossulata. The former has characters intermediate 

 between B. sulcata and B. tesserinoda ; and the latter differs from 

 typical B. sulcata in having the posterior half of the head with 

 scattered large shallow punctures. 



120. Bothroponera rubiginosa, Emery (Ponera), Mm. Civ. Gen. 

 xxvii (1889), p. 498, ; Forel, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xiii 

 (1900), p. 323, . 



. Dull opaque black, the mandibles, antennae and legs light 

 red, the posterior margins of the abdominal segments and the 

 pygidium reddish yellow. Head, thorax and abdomen finely, 

 very closely reticulate-punctate, covered with a fine sericeous 

 hoary pubescence ; the abdomen slightly shining. Head, without 

 the mandibles, a little longer than broad, posteriorly widely 

 emarginate, the posterior lateral angles well defined but not 

 produced ; mandibles opaque, punctured ; clypeus transverse, 

 medially somewhat sharply carinate. Thorax short, shorter than 

 the abdomen, massive, convex in front, rounded above, the obliquely 

 truncate apex of the metanotum almost submargined ; legs stout, 

 densely pubescent. Node of the pedicel a little broader than 

 long, rounded above, and somewhat roundly truncate anteriorly, 

 posteriorly abruptly truncate, vertical and flat; abdomen cylin- 

 drical, long and massive. 



Length, $ 5 mm. 



Hob. Western India, Pooua ( Wroughton) ; throughout Burma 

 and Tenasserim (Bingham). 



Genus MESOPONERA. 



Ponera, pt, Smith, Cat. vi (1858), p. 91. 



Pachychondyla, pt., Mayr, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xvi (1866), 



p. 890, . 



Mesoponera, Emery (Euponera, For., Subgen. Mesoponera, Emery], 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xlv (1901), p. 43. 



Type, M. caffraria, Smith, from S. Africa. 

 Range. Both hemispheres. 



. Head without the mandibles rectangular, longer than broad, 

 and broader posteriorly than in front ; mandibles strong, triangular, 



