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transverse ; eyes lateral, placed about the middle of the head and 

 nearly circular. Thorax proportionately rather narrow ; pronotum 

 slightly convex, broader than long, rounded at the sides and 

 somewhat coarsely rugose; pro-mesonotal suture visible, arched 

 anteriorly ; mesonotum rectangular, longer than broad, oblique, its 

 sloping face with fewer punctures, shining ; thorax impressed at 

 the raeso-metanotal suture ; the basal portion of the metanotum 

 horizontal, longitudinally striate, twice as broad as long ; the 

 posterior lateral angles with two long acute spines ; apical portion 

 of the metanotum oblique, nearly vertical, slightly concave ; legs 

 smooth and shining. Pedicel : the first joint Hat above, the sides 

 not much curved nor broadened ; 2nd joint viewed from above 

 with a longitudinally impressed line, the portion on each side of 

 the impressed line raised and rounded; abdomen smooth, polished, 

 shining, very minutely and closely punctate. 



Length, $ 4'3-5'5 mm. 



Hub. North-west Himalayas (Fulton fy Smythies). 



1(58. Cremastogaster mogdiliani, Emery (Tapinoma), Ann. Mtts. 

 Civ. Gen. xl (1900), p. 696, . 



$ . Dark reddish brown to piceous black, the mandibles, antennae 

 and legs paler ; pubescence long, recumbent, oblique on the scape 

 and tibiae ; head finely and closely striate, thorax more coarsely 

 striate, the pedicel closely punctured, more or less opaque, abdo- 

 men smooth. Head somewhat globose, obtusely truncate posteriorly ; 

 maqdibles finely striate at base, punctured towards the apex ; 

 clypeus convex in the middle, in some specimens depressed towards 

 the anterior margin, which is transverse ; antennae comparatively 

 long, the scape extending a little beyond the top of the head ; club 

 of the flagellum rather indistinct, formed by the apical 4 joints ; eyes 

 placed above the middle on the sides of the head. Thorax : the 

 pro- and mesonotum forming a gentle convexity, the pronotum 

 rounded anteriorly, the pro-mesonotal suture obsolete, the meso- 

 notum laterally margined and with a somewhat conspicuous short 

 medial carina ; meso-metanotal suture well-marked ; basal portion 

 of the metanotum broader than long ; the metanotal spines long, 

 slender, divergent and acute at apex, directed obliquely upwards 

 and backwards. Pedicel : the 1st joint slightly concave above 

 and broadened anteriorly ; 2nd joint with a low rounded node not 

 divided by a longitudinal groove, merely with an impression in the 

 middle ; abdomen broad and subcordate. 



Length, 2'5-3'5 mm. 



Hob. Burma, Tenasserim (Pea, Binyham). Extending to the 

 Malayan subregion. 



169. Cremastogaster ferrarii, Emery, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xxv 

 (1887), p. 533 ; id. 1. c. xxvii (1889), p. 506. 



" . Brown or fuscous, smooth and shining, sparsely pilose, 

 the scape of the antennae and tibiae of the legs with erect hairs. 



