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scattered punctures. Head rectangular, longer than broad, the 

 posterior lateral angles not prominent, rounded ; mandibles com- 

 paratively broad, obscurely longitudinally striate and punctured ; 

 clypeus vertical, its posterior portion slightly produced, anteriorly 

 crenulate ; antennae short, comparatively stout ; eyes lateral and 

 a little to the front, placed about the middle of the head. Thorax 

 anteriorly flat, compressed; the pronotmn nearly square, sub- 

 margined, contracted anteriorly into a short neck; pro-mesonotal 



Fig. 54. Sima allaborans, 



suture distinct but not emarginate ; mesonotum longitudinally 

 oval ; thorax in profile emarginate at the meso-metanotal suture ; 

 metanotum raised, convex, strongly compressed ; legs of moderate 

 length, rather stout. Pedicel with the nodes comparatively large, 

 the 1st oval, petiolate anteriorly, the 2nd broader than the 1st, 

 conical ; abdomen elongate, narrowly oval. 



Length, % 5-6 mm. 



Hob. Bengal (Rothney)- Western India (Wrotightori): Ceylon 

 (Eotfiney $ Green) ; Burma, Pegu Yorna (Bingham), Bhamo(/^). 



134. Sima fergusoni, Forel 



Sima nigra, Smith, race fergusoni, Forel, Rev. Suisse Zool. x (1902), 

 p. 248. 



. Resembles S. nigra, but is much more slenderly built. 

 Black ; mandibles, antennaB and legs obscure castaneous brown, 

 the antenna with a somewhat reddish tinge ; pilosity pale, some- 

 what abundant, especially on the abdomen. Head as in S. nigra, 

 but with the posterior portion of the clypeus not so projecting, 

 shorter. Thorax a little narrower than the head, very deeply 

 emarginate at the meso-metauotal suture, the convexity of the, 

 pro- and mesonotum in front of, and the convexity at the meta- 

 notum posterior to, the emarginatiou very much more marked than 

 in S. nigra. Pedicel remarkably long, the 1st node narrow and 

 with a very long petiole anteriorly ; 2nd node also elongate, 

 longer than broad, but conical ; abdomen much as in S. nigra, but 

 narrower. 



Length, 5 to 5'5 mm. 



