166 FOBMICID.E. 



the uiesonotum set with large elongate punctures. Scutellum 

 shining. Metanotum transversely striate, with two short acute 

 apical spines. The 1st node shortly petiolate in front, . . . 2nd 

 node a little broader than long. Abdomen shining, plainly but 

 not very thickly punctured. Femora rather thickened. The 

 shining abdomen pilose. Front wing . . . with one discoiclal and 

 one cubital cell." (Roger.') 



Length, I/ 4; 1-8 ; ? 11-12 mm. 



Hab. Ceylon. 



190. Phidologiton lamellifrons, Forel, Rev. Suisse Zool. x (1902), 

 p. 219, . 



" 5 . Mandibles smooth, armed with 6 teeth, sparsely punc- 

 tured. Clypeus not emarginate anteriorly, obtusely bicarinate, 

 the carinse widely divergent. Head rectangular, about one-filth 

 longer than wide. Each occipital angle forms a transverse 

 rounded ridge, which is continued a little on to the sides and 

 towards the middle, where it separates the vertex from the 

 occiput, but becomes obsolete behind the ocelli. The frontal 

 carinae parallel, very long, wide apart, dilated in front into rounded 

 reddish translucid lamellae, which cover the articulation of the 

 antenna?, as in many of the Cryptoceri, without being so lateral, 

 but they are more raised and prominent. Scape clavate, short, 

 scarcely extending beyond the middle of the head. Antennae 

 11-jointed, the club of two joints. Thorax as broad as the head. 

 Metanotum subcubical, armed with two dentiform tubercles, its 

 two portions subequal, the vertical portion declivous. First node 

 subsquamiform, emarginate above, with a broad petiole ; second 

 node rectangular, transverse. Head longitudinally striate, except 

 the occiput posteriorly and the clypeus, which are smooth like 

 the rest of the body. Metanotum reticulate. Erect pilosity 

 yellowish, unequal, abundant on the body, very oblique on the 

 tibiae and scape. Pubescence very thin. Of a brownish- black ; 

 abdomen, legs, antennae, mandibles and frontal carinae of a 

 reddish or brownish yellow. Wings pubescent, clouded with 

 brownish." (ForeL} 



LengtJt, $ 4'5-4'6 mm. 



Hab. Eecorded so far from Belgaum only (Wroiigliton}. Un- 

 known to me. 



Genus MERANOPLUS. 



Crvptocems, Guer. (nee Latr.) Cm-. Iconoyr, Reyne Anim., Ins. iii 



(1838), p. 424. 

 Meranoplus, Smith, Tram. Ent. Soc. ser. 2, ii (1&54), p. 224. 



Type, M. bicolor, Guer., from India. 



Range. Indo-Malayan, Australian and Ethiopian regions. 



. Head trapezoidal, broader posteriorly than in front, the 

 front of the head from the posterior margin of the clypeus bent 

 downwards, subtruncate ; sides of the head slightly compressed, 



