MOXOMORIUM. *>07 



curve into the apical portion. Pedicel rather short, the nodes 

 large, the 1st node cuneiform, slightly conical, higher than the 

 2nd node ; the latter subglobose, slightly broader than long and 

 broader than the 1st node ; abdomen oval. 



Length, 2-5-3 mm. 



Hob. Ceylon. 



Described from Smith's specimens in the British Museum. 

 I have carefully counted the joints of the antennae in several 

 specimens, and there are 12, not 11 joints as stated by Smith. 



238. Monomoriuin aberrans, Forel, Rev. Sw'ase Zool. x (1902), p. 209. 



. Eeddish yellow, the abdomen dark bvown with bluish 

 reflections ; head, thorax and abdomen smooth and shining, the 

 metanotum above transversely striate, the sides of the thorax 

 posteriorly finely rugulose ; pilosity tolerably abundant, oblique 

 on the scape of the antennae and the tibiao. Head quadrate, as 

 broad as long, posteriorly emarginate ; mandibles finely and closely 

 longitudinally striate and opaque; elvpeus somewhat short, sub- 

 truncate anteriorly, the two carinae divergent, not forming teeth 

 anteriorly ; antennae somewhat long and slender, the scape reach- 

 ing beyond the top of the head ; eyes lateral and a little to the 

 front, closer to the anterior than to the posterior margin of the 

 head. Thorax anteriorly very rounded and convex, the pro- 

 mesonotal suture obsolete, the meso-metanotal suture deep and 

 wide, the thorax in profile emarginate at the suture; basal portion 

 of the metanotum slightly convex, rectangular, the posterior lateral 

 angles subdentate, the apical portion of the mebmotum obliquely 

 truncate. Pedicel : the 1 st node high, conical, rounded and obtuse 

 above, petiolate anteriorly; 2nd node not so high, longer than 

 broad, rounded above ; abdomen somewhat elongate, oval. 



Lenyth, $ 3'5 mm. 



Hab. Central Provinces, Pachmarhi (Schwr). 



239. Monomoriuin orientale, Mayr, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxviii 



(1878), p. 070, . 



. Beddish yellow, the mandibles, antennae and legs slightly 

 paler ; smooth 'and shining ; pilosity sparse, the legs with the 

 hairs oblique. Head rectangular, longer than broad, posteriorly 

 transverse, the lateral angles rounded; mandibles narrow, the 

 masticatory margin oblique, armed with 4 teeth ; clypeus short, 

 the medial carinre strongly convergent above; antennae 11-jointed, 

 rather short, the scape not reaching the top of the head ; eyes 

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

 pro-mesonotum comparatively large, convex, the meso-metanotal 

 suture deeply impressed, the thorax constricted at I he suture; the 

 basal portion of the metanotum above rectangular, rather flat. 

 Pedicel : the 1st node cuneiform, higher than the 2nd, rounded 



