168 FORMICID.I;. 



191. Meranoplus mucronatus, Smith, Jour. Linn. Soc. ii (1867), p. 82, 



pi. 2, fig. 6, . 



. Dark ferruginous red, scape of the antennae, antennal 

 grooves, margins of the pro-mesonotal shield and legs yellowish ; 

 pilosity short, fairly abundant, yellowish red in colour. Head, 

 thorax above, and nodes of the pedicel roughly sculptured ; frontal 

 area, antennae and antennal grooves, sides of the thorax, the 

 inetanotuui and legs smooth and shining ; abdomen closely, very 

 distinctly reticulate-punctate, opaque. Head a little longer than 

 broad, convex ; mandibles and clypeus longitudinally striate ; frontal 

 area depressed but distinct ; eyes comparatively small, antennal 

 grooves and antennas characteristic of the genus. Thorax : the 

 pro-mesonotal shield square, with a semitrans parent lamellar 

 process between the long spines arming each angle of the square ; 

 two short processes between the posterior two spines, each pro- 

 cess divided at apex into two or three acute little spines ; meta- 

 notum narrowed, concave, vertical, bilaterally carinate, the ca rinse 

 ending above in a long slender curved spine ; legs long, robust. 

 Pedicel: the 1st node squamate, pentagonal, viewed from the side 

 triangular ; 2nd node flat in front, rounded and sloping posteriorly ; 

 abdomen convex, cordate, acuminate at apex. 



Length, $ 6 mm. 



Hub. Lower Burma, Pegu Toma (BinyTiam). 



I only once came across this species. It appears to be rare. 



192. Meranoplus bicolor, Guer. (Cryptocerus) Cuv. Iconogr, Eegn. 



Anim., Ins. iii (1838), p. 425 ; "Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. Land. 



1875, p. 34, pi. i, figs. 1-3, $ rf. 



? Meranoplus dimicans, Walker, A. M. N. H. (3) iv (1859), p. 375, $ 

 ? Meranoplus villostis, Motsch. Etud. Entom. viii (1859), p. 115, $ . 



$ . Head, thorax, legs and pedicel of the abdomen bright ferru- 

 ginous red, abdomen black ; pilosity very long, soft, abundant and 

 cf a grey colour ; head and thorax above and the 2nd node of the 



Fig. 66. Meranoplus bicolor, . a. Head. 



pedicel coarsely sculptured, cribrate ; sides of the thorax punc- 

 tured, opaque ; the antenual groove within and the metanotum 

 smooth ; scape of antennae and legs sparsely, flagellum finely and 



