198 FORMICID.E. 



228. Myrmecina striata, Emery, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xxvii (1889), 



p.oOO, . 



$ . Black, the mandibles (excepting the margins narrowly), the 

 antenna;, the legs (except the coxao), the sides of the abdomen, the 

 apical margin of the 1st and the whole of the remaining abdominal 

 segments, reddish yellow ; head, thorax and abdomen covered with 

 a sparse pale pilosi'ty, pubescem e absent except on the flagelltim of 

 the antennae ; head^ thorax above and on the sides, and the nodes 

 of the pedicel above longitudinally channeled ; mandibles, middle 

 of the clvpeus, legs and abdomen smooth and shining, the last 

 highly polished. Head as broad as long, deeply emarginate 

 posteriorly, the occiput submargined anteriorly, the cheeks very 

 slightly convex, the eyes quite lateral and placed well anterior to 

 the middle of the head ; mandibles with the masticatory margin 

 indistinctly dentate, the apical tooth acute ; clypeus viewed in 



Fig. 73. Myrmecina striat 



profile somewhat porrect, with a triangular, somewhat depressed 

 medial portion, bearing an indistinct carina on each side, continued 

 as the anlennal carina?, these latter wide apart ; antennae long and 

 stout, the scape very nearly extending to the top of the head. 

 Thorax: the pro-mesonotum a little convex, the sides vertical, 

 slightly concave, the metanotal spines dose together, divergent, 

 pointing backwards and slightly upwards ; legs with the middle of 

 the femora and tibiae incrassate. Pedicel and abdomen with the 

 characters as in the genus. 



Length, $ 3'75 mm. 



Hab. Tenasserim, Muleyit, 5000 feet (Pea). 



Genus LIOMYRMEX. 



Myrmica, pt, Smith, Jour. Linn. Soc. v (1861), p. 108, . 

 Liomyrmex, Mayr t Novara Reisc, FormicitL 1865, p. 23. 



Type, L. caucus, Smith, from Dorey. 



Range. Indo-Malayau region. 



$ . Head rectangular ; mandibles more or less triangular, with 

 the maslicatory margin dentate; clypeus flat, rounded and distinctly 

 limited posteriorly between the bases of the antennae, its anterior 

 margin transverse ; antennal carinae remarkably short, somewhat 

 wide apart; antennae 10-11 -jointed, the club of the flagellum long, 



