PHIDOLE. 241 



" c? Mandibles trideutate, narrow at base. Scape shorter than 

 the basal two joints of the flagellum united. Head posteriorly 

 trapeziform. Of a dingy brownish-yellow colour. Metanotum 

 with two rounded elevations. Sculpture, wings and pilosity as 

 in the ? and I/ ." (Forel.) 



Length, 7/ 6-5-7'5 ; $ 3-3'5; 10; J 6mm. 



Hub. North-west Provinces (Smythies) -, Central (James) and 

 Western India ( Wroughton). 



272. Phldole wood-masoni, Forel, Jour. As. Soc. JBena liv pt 2 

 (1885), p. 180, I/ $ ; Rev. Suisse Zool. x (1902), pp. 173 & 191, 

 I/ $ ? <5; id. Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xiv (1902), pp. 529 & 541. 



If. . Bright, rather light yellow, the mandibles brown, abdomen 

 fuscous brown ; head, thorax and abdomen covered with rather 

 long semi-erect pale yellow hairs, most abundant on the abdomen ; 

 head nearly twice as long as broad, rectangular ; mandibles smooth, 

 sparsely punctured, with two acute teeth at apex ; clypeus narrow 

 and transverse; antennal carinao short, divergent posteriorly, no 

 antennal groove; scape of the antennae barely reaching one-third 

 of the distance between their insertion and the top of the head ; 

 eyes very small, placed on the sides in the anterior fourth of the 

 head ; head shining, anteriorly finely striate, tlie posterior half 

 sparsely punctured. Thorax : the pro- and mesonotum broad, 

 forming one convexity, the former laterally tuberculate, the latter 

 vertical posteriorly, the basal portion of the uietanotum depressed 

 and level, the metanotal spines very short, erect. Nodes of the 

 pedicel subequal, in profile conical, rounded above, with no 

 appendix beneath ; abdomen broadly oval. 



. Light yellow all over, shining; head posteriorly very 

 slightly but distinctly emarginate; antennae short, the scape 

 barely reaching to the top of the head ; thorax smooth and 

 shining, the same shape in miniature as in the I/.. Posterior 

 node of the pedicel slightly larger than the anterior node ; 

 abdomen oval. 



$ . Brownish yellow ; head as brond as long, entirely longi- 

 tudinally striate, except a smooth elongate space for the scape ; 

 thorax and abdomen smooth and shining, the mt-tanotum strongly 

 bidentate ; the posterior node of the pedicel with its lateral angles 

 acute. Pilosity similar to that in the I/ , but more dense. 



" d Mandibles bidentate. Scape barely so long as the basal 

 two joints of the flagellum, of which the 2nd is a little longer 

 than broad. Head posteriorly trapeziform, the sides oblique, the 

 posterior margin short, the head opaque, finely striate and reticu- 

 late. The rest of the insect smooth and shining, like the 9 

 and cf of P. sylcesi. Pale yellow, head brownish yellow ; wings 

 yellowish, subhyaltne, elongate." (Forel.) 



Length, I/ 2-5-4; 1'5 ; $ 4-5-5; <$ 3-5 mm. 



Hal. Spread sparingly through Continental India and Ceylon. 



