140 FOEMICIDvE. 



abdomen black or dark brown ; mandibles, antennae and legs 

 a lighter cbestnut-red ; pilosity whitish, abundant and fairly 

 long, especially on the head and thorax; on the legs it is more 

 sparse and oblique ; in the min. it is a little less abundant ; 

 head finely longitudinally striate ; thorax and pedicel more or less 

 coarsely, sometimes fiuely rugose-reticulate, the inesonotum finely 

 longitudinally striate ; abdomen smooth, but not very shining or 

 polished. Head : $ maj. broader than long, $ min. square ; 

 occiput transverse ; mandibles punctured and finely longitudinally 

 striate ; clypeus convex in the middle, the anterior margin trans- 

 verse. Antennae : the scape not quite reaching ( maj.) or just 

 reaching ( min.) the posterior margin of the head ; club of 

 flagellura formed of the apical three joints, more distinct in the 

 min. than in the maj. ; eyes placed about the middle of the 

 sides of the head. Thorax convex ( maj.), slightly depressed 

 ( min.) in front ; the pronotum rounded in front and arched at 

 the sides ; inesonotum ( min.) laterally margined, pro-rnesonotal 

 suture fairly distinct ; meso-metanotal suture deeply impressed ; 

 basal portion of metanotum transverse, broader than long; 

 rnetanotal spines long, divergent and directed backwards and up- 

 wards ; apical face of metanotum smooth. Pedicel: the 1st joint 

 flat above, very wide and rounded anteriorly and on the sides, 

 narrowed posteriorly ; 2nd joint with a slightly raised rounded 

 node, divided longitudinally by a groove ; abdomen broad. 



<3 . " Testaceous, head fuscous or fuscous black, the clypeus 

 paler, abdomen fusco-testaceous or fuscous ; the whole insect 

 covered with erect hairs, smooth, shining ; mandibles slightly 

 curved at base, plainly narrowed to the apex which is acute ; 

 antennae 12-jointed, short and thick, filiform, the scape about half 

 as long again as thick ; the 1st joint of the flagellum globose, the 

 rest cylindrical, clothed with dense, short erect hairs, the 2nd and 

 3rd joints coalescing and together twice as long as broad, joints 

 4 and 5 not or perhaps about as long as broad, the others 

 about twice as long as broad ; metanotum unarmed ; 1st joint of 

 pedicel seen from above quadrate, the angles rounded, 2nd trans- 

 versely oval above without any longitudinal groove ; wings hyaline, 

 the costa testaceous." (Mayr.) 



Length, $ 3-2-5-5; <J 3-5 mm. 



Hab. Burma : Tenasserirn (Allan, Hodgson, BingJiam). Ex- 

 tending to the Malayan subregion. 



This species is extremely close to C. dohrni, but the small 

 differences noted are constant. 



163. Creinastogaster rothneyi, Mayr, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 

 xxviii (1878), pp. 681 & 685, . 



$ . Head, thorax and pedicel rufo-ferrugiuous ; abdomen 

 fuscous brown to black ; the antennae and legs pale yellow ; the 

 head and thorax above sometimes lightly infuscate ; pilosity pale 

 yellow, short and obtuse at apex, but fairly abundant, especially 

 on the abdomen ; head, thorax and pedicel opaque ; abdomen 

 smooth and slightly shining. Head longitudinally finely striate, 



