CREMASTOGASTEK. 141 



a little broader than long ; seen from the front the occiput 

 transverse ; the eyes large and prominent, placed above the 

 middle of the head ; mandibles finely striate; clypeus short, 

 truncate anteriorly ; antennae rather slender but short, the scape 

 not quite reaching the top of the head, the club of the flagellum 

 formed of the last three joints. Thorax finely and very closely 

 reticulate-punctate, rugulose, submargined along the sides ; the 

 pronotum somewhat flat above, rounded anteriorly ; pro-mesonoral 

 suture indicated, the mesonotum slightly concave ; the meso- 

 metanotal suture very distinct; the basal portion of the metanotum 

 transversely rectangular, longitudinally striate ; the metanotal 

 spines long and stout, divergent ; apical portion of metanotum 

 finely minutely punctured, shining. Pedicel : the 1st joint broad, 

 flat above, broader in front than posteriorly, the sides rounded ; 

 2nd joint seen from above trituberculate on upper side : the 

 tubercles rounded, the anterior one small, the other two larger, 

 side by side, subequal ; the whole pedicel rugulose above ; 

 abdomen broadly cordate. 



LengtJi, $ 3-3'5 mm. 



Bab. Sikhim (Holler) ; Calcutta, Bhaviiagar and Bombay 

 (Rotlmey) Poona ( IVrouyhton). 



Var. civa, Forel, is a form more strongly sculptured. 



164. Cremastogaster rogenhoferi, Mayr, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wieit, 

 xxviii (1878), pp. 681 & 683, . 



$ . Heddish brown, darkening to brown on the posterior half 

 of the abdomen ; the antennae, legs and posterior margins of the 

 abdominal segments somewhat narrowly yellow ; pilosity pale, 



Fig. 58. C'rcmastcyaster rogenhoferi, 



sparse and very short. Head very finely longitudinally rugulose, 

 subopaque, from the front nearly square, the posterior margin 

 transverse ; mandibles rugulose ; clypeus short, slightly convex, 

 the anterior margin of the medial portion slightly squarely pro- 

 duced ; antennae moderately thick, the scape reaching up to the 

 top of the head, the club of the flagellum formed of the apical 

 three joints ; in many specimens the ocelli are fairly distinct ; 

 eyes lateral, placed about the middle of the head. Thorax longi- 

 tudinally rugulose ; the pronotum somewhat flat, the sides vertical 

 and narrowing anteriorly; the pro-mesonotal suture distinct; 

 mesonotum curving obliquely back, margined at the sides and 



