230 FORM1CIDJE. 



anteriorly, the anterior lateral angles prominent, above transverse; 

 posterior node convex above, a little more than twice as long as 

 broad, laterally angular ; abdomen broadly oval, convex. 



$ . Pale brownish yellow, polished, smooth and shining ; with 

 sparse pilosity chiefly on the front of the head and apex of the 

 abdomen, on the antennae and legs the hairs are short and oblique ; 

 head a little longer than broad, and broad posteriorly ; eyes compara- 

 tively prominent ; scape of the antennae extending beyond the top of 

 the head by barely one-fifth of its length. Thorax bi-emargiuate ; 

 anterior node of the pedicel without an appendix, posterior node 

 oval, convex. 



"$. Precisely like the T/, with an appendix beneath the 1st 

 node of the pedicel." (ForeL) 



" d 1 . Mandibles without teeth. Scape as long as the first two 

 joints of the flagellum. Head behind the eyes trapezoidal. A 

 longitudinal whitish carina on the 1st node of the pedicel. "Wings 

 yellowish, stigma and nervures paler. Of a dingy yellow ; abdomen 

 brownish.'' (Forel.) 



Length, If. 4-5-5 ; $ 2-5 ; d 1 4-8 mm. 



Hob. Recorded so far only from Central (BetJiam*) and Western 

 India (Wrovglitori). 



258. Phidole grayi, Ford, Rev. Suisse Zooi. \ (1902), pp. 167 & 187, 

 I/ $ ; id. Jour. Brnnb. N. H. Soc. xiv (1902), pp. 524 539. 



U- Head, thorax and posterior node of the pedicel reddish 

 brown, antennas and legs yellow, abdomen brown with the apical 

 margins of the segments narrowly yellowish ; head, thorax and 

 abdomen covered with erect pale reddish hairs, oblique, most 

 abundant on the antennae and on the tibiaa of the legs. Head 

 broader posteriorly than in front, longitudinally striate, with the 

 occiput and a portion of the vertex and front above smooth 

 and shining ; mandibles smooth, with scattered punctures ; clypeus 

 with a smooth space in the middle ; autennal carinae short, diver- 

 gent posteriorly ; antennal grooves shallow, sculptured inside ; 

 scape of the antennae reaching two-thirds of the distance from its 

 insertion to the top of the head. Thorax as in P. lamellinoda, the 

 pronotum rounded and convex, but transversely striate, with the 

 lateral tubercles less distinct ; metanotal spines longer than in 

 P. lamellinoda. Nodes of the pedicel and abdomen as in that 

 species, but distinctly pilose and not so smooth, polished and 

 shining. 



$ . Head, thorax and anterior node of the pedicel yellow, the 

 head with a brownish tint, the posterior node of the pedicel and 

 the abdomen brown. Head posteriorly nearly transverse, the 

 antennae extending beyond the top by about one-third of their 

 length. Thorax : the transverse groove or sulcus on the meso- 

 notum shallow ; the metanotum without spines, scarcely dentate. 

 Anterior node of pedicel in profile triangular, posterior node from 



