244 FOBMICU>-E. 



276. Phidole templaria, Forel, Rev. Suisse Zool. x (1902), p. 174:. 

 ill. Jour. Bomb. N. H. Sue. xiv (1902), pp. 530 & 542. 



7/. Dark chestnut-brown, the antenna?, legs and pedicel an- 

 teriorly yellowish brown ; head, thorax and abdomen covered 

 abundantly with soft, erect, red hairs. Head slightly shining,, 

 rectangular, narrow, very much longer than broad, anteriorly 

 longitudinally striate, the striae posteriorly and laterally becoming 

 broad reticulations; mandibles smooth: clypeus not carinate, 

 medially smooth, its anterior margin irregularly wared ; antenual 

 carinae short, divergent, no regular antennal groove, but above, 

 where the apex of the scape rests, there is an oblique depression - t 

 scape of antenna? short, barely reaching half the distance from 

 insertion to the top of the head. Thorax slightly shining, the 

 sides rather feebly sculptured ; the pro- and mesonotum form a 

 single convexity roundly cone-shaped, raised high above the 

 metauotum, the mesonotuin without the transverse groove and 

 ridge ; the basal portion of the rnetanotum flat, submargined at 

 the sides, the metanotal spines comparatively long and acute. 

 Pedicel : the 1st node in profile triangular, petiolate in front ; 

 2nd node rounded above, a little broader than long ; both nodes 

 slightly incised above ; abdomen very broadly oval. 



$ . Light chestnut-brown, smooth and shining ; antenna) and 

 legs yellowish brown ; head oval, with a broad posterior margin ; 

 antenna? stout, extending beyond the top of the head by about 

 one quarter of its length. Thorax : the pro- and mesonotum 

 raised, rounded above, forming one convexity ; the metanotum 

 short, basal portion flat, the lateral spines short, erect and acute. 

 Pedicel and nodes like those of the 11 in miniature ; abdomen 

 oval. 



Length. If. 3 $ 1-8-2 mm. 



Hab. Dr. Forel records this species from Nissor in the N.AV. 

 Himalayas ; I obtained it in Sikhim at 6000 ft. elevation. 



277. Phidole parva, Mayr, Novara Seise, Formicid. 1805, p. 98, 1/ $ , 

 pi. iv, fig. 28 a, b, 11 ; Forel, Rev. Suisse Zool. x (1902), pp. 175- 

 & 192, 4 <j> <? ; f. Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xiv (1902), pp. 530 

 & 542. 



11. Head, thorax and pedicel reddish brown, the latter two- 

 lighter in colour than the head ; abdomen brown ; mandibles, 

 antenna) and legs dark yellow ; head, thorax and abdomen covered 

 moderately with short, soft, semi-erect pale hairs. Head longi- 

 tudinally striate, elongate, very much longer than broad, constricted 

 posteriorly, the occipital emargination wide, the lateral lobes 

 prominent ; mandibles smooth, clypeus not emarginate anteriorly ; 

 antenna? short, the scape reaching only to about one-third of their 

 length from insertion to the top of the head ; antennal groove 

 shallow, reticulate within. Thorax finely reticulate-punctate, 

 opaque, the pronotal tubercle distinct ; the transverse mesonotal 

 groove shallow, the ridge posterior to it not well-marked ; meta- 



