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abdomen with some transverse brown markings ; head, thorax, 

 pedicel and base of abdomen more or less shining, with scattered 



Fig. 64 



shallow punctures and a few minute piligerous tubercles ; the 

 rest smooth and shining but not polished; pilosity moderately- 

 abundant, soft and long. 



. Pale yellow to reddish yellow ; the abdomen and the borders 

 of the mandibles marked with brown. Entirely smooth, shining 

 and polished. 



$ . Similar in colour to the I/ , but of a slightly deeper tint ; 

 the apical margins of the abdominal segments transversely dark 

 brown. Head, thorax and abdomen shining, with small, shallow, 

 widely scattered punctures ; pilosity as in the I/ ; wings hyaline, 

 nervures pale yellow. 



c? . Dark reddish brown, the head rugulose, subopaque ; the 

 rest very smooth, shining and polished ; wings as in the $ . 



For the rest of the characters of the species see detail of 

 generic characters given above. 



Length, % 7-8; 3-4-5; $ 9-9-5; d" 5-5 mm. 



Hob. Throughout our limits, and spread pretty nearly over the 

 tropics of the two hemispheres. 



Var. rufa, Jerdon, is a darker reddish yellow. 



185. Solenopsis wroughtoni, Forel,JRev. Suisse Zool. x (1902), p. 214. 



" . Mandibles smooth, armed with 5 acute teeth, short and 

 stoutly made. Head rectangular, constricted anteriorly, with the 

 sides somewhat convex. Clypeus bicarinate and sub-bidentate. 

 Eyes absent, or composed of a single facet situated in the anterior 

 third of the sides of the head. Maxillary palpi 1-jointed. The 

 scape extends up to the posterior two-fifths of the head. The 

 last joint of the antennae is as long as the 7 preceding joints 

 united. Joints 2-6 of the flagellum 3 times thicker than long. 

 Pro-mesonotum barely longer than broad. Meso-metanotal 

 emargination narrow, but somewhat strongly impressed. Basal 

 face of metanotuin broader than long, terminated by two small 

 elongate tubercles, on the carinse prolonged along the length of the 

 declivous face. First node of pedicel convex, below formed into a 

 rounded cone, petiolate anteriorly ; second node broader than long, 

 much broader than the 1st. Legs short and thick. The anterior 

 tibiae only twice as long as they are broad. Somewhat densely 



