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top of the head ; eyes placed a little below the middle of the sides 

 of the head. Thorax elongate, narrow ; seen in profile the pro- 

 mesonotum convex, the metanotum above level, a wide shallow 

 emargination between the two, the ineso-metanotal suture distinct, 

 the metanotal spines reduced to two small teeth; legs rather 

 long and slender. Pedicel : the 1st node somewhat cuneiform, 

 sloping gradually in front to almost the base of its short anterior 

 petiole ; 2nd node rounded, a little broader than long and broader 

 than the 1st node ; abdomen somewhat massive, broadly oval. 



Length, $ 2'5-3'5 mm. 



Hob. Recorded so far only from the North-west Himalayas, 

 Dharmsala (Fulton}. 



252. Leptothorax rothneyi, Ford, Rev. Suisse Zool. x (1902), p. 230. 



. Head more or less ferruginous brown, thorax and pedicel 

 more or less bright ferruginous red, abdomen brown to dark 

 brown, mandibles, antennae and legs yellow ; head and thorax 

 minutely and closely punctured, rugulose and more or less opaque, 

 in some specimens slightly shining : pilosity pale, short, sparse, 



Fig. W.Leptothorax rothueyi. . a. Head from front. 



the apices of the hairs blunt. Head broadly oval as in L.fultoni, 

 somewhat broader and more transverse posteriorly; mandibles 

 minutely longitudinally striate at base ; clypeus very convex in 

 the middle, polished and shining ; antennae much as in L. fultom, 

 the club of the flagellum more massive ; eyes rather large, placed 

 in the middle of the sides of the head. Thorax : the pro-meso- 

 notum rather broad, anteriorly convex, narrowing posteriorly ; the 

 basal portion of the metanotum rectangular, with a somewhat 

 stout triangular erect spine at the posterior lateral angles on each 

 side. Pedicel thick, the nodes somewhat as in L . fultom, the 

 2nd node transverse, broad ; abdomen oval, anteriorly ti ate, 

 posteriorly somewhat pointed. 



Length, $ 2-5 to nearly 3 mm. 



Hab. North-west Himalayas, Mussoone (Roihney); bikhiui 

 (Holler) ; hills of Central India, Pachmarhi (Schwrr). 



