PHIJDOLE. 



227 



A". Head shorter, about as 



long as broad. 



1J . Metanotal spines long, 

 longer than half the 

 length of the basal [ p 264 



face of metanotum .. P. rotschana, 



f <> ' Aletanotal spines very 



short, barely half the 



length of the basal 



face of metanotum. 



a 16 . Pronotum seen from 



the front rounded, [p 265 



convex P. himalayana, 



18 . Pronotum seen from 

 the front flat ante- 

 riorly, transverse 



B. Club of flagellum of antennae formed of apical' four 

 joints. 



a. Light reddish-brown; head enormous, clvpeus To *>07 



not carinate '. ... P. smythies'i " 



b. Very dark brown, almost black ; head proportion- r p ' 228 



ately much smaller, clypeus medially carinate.. P. bhavurue', 



255. Phidole smythiesi, Ford, Rev. Suisse Zool. x (1902), pp. 165 & 

 185, $ <$ id. Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xiv (1902), pp. 523 



}/ . Of a clear light or reddish chestnut-brown all over, slightly 

 shining, covered with abundant reddish-yellow erect hairs. Head 

 enormously large, much broader than long, posteriorly deeply 

 emargiuate, with no depression on the vertex but a broad, smooth, 

 depressed line down the middle; anteriorly finely but rather 



Fig. IS. Phidole smythiesi, 



vaguely longitudinally striate, the striao breaking into punctures 

 and shallow reticulations posteriorly ; mandibles punctured and 

 sparsely striate, the masticatory margin acutely pointed at apex, 

 without distinct teeth but slightly crenulate ; clypeus longi- 

 tudinally striate ; antennal carinae short and widely divergent 

 posteriorly, no antennal groove : antenna) short, the scape from 

 its insertion reaching barely halfway to the top of the head ; 

 flagellum clavate, the apical four joints subequal; eyes small, 



