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iiotum short, with the basal and apical portions subequal the 

 metanotal spines proportionately rather stout and acute Pedicel 

 comparatively long: the 1st node squamiform, high, transverse 

 above with no appendix beneath ; the 2nd node transverse, laterally 

 <?one-shaped ; abdomen short, depressed, smooth and shining. 



5 . Keddish brown ; antenna? and legs yellowish. Head oval 



longitudinally striate ; antennae comparatively long, the scape 



passing beyond the top of the head by about one-third of its 



length. Thorax short, convex anteriorly : the metanotal spines 



short and stout. 



$ . Eeddish brown, the head in front, the antenna? and legs 

 yellowish red. Pilosity moderately plentiful. Head square, 

 as broad as the thorax, smooth ; the mesonotum with obsolete 

 longitudinal striae ; the metanotum opaque, punctured ; metanotal 

 spines stout, acute; wings brownish hyaline, nervures brown. 

 Abdomen smooth and shining. 



" d 1 . Mandibles bidentate. Antennae as in P. wood-masoni, but 

 the 2nd joint of the flagellum nearly twice as long as broad. For 

 the rest as in P. ivood-masoni <$ , but the wings browner, the 

 whole colour of a more brownish yellow (head brownish), the 

 thorax more depressed, the pilosity of the tibia oblique." (Forel) 



Length, I/ 3-3-2; g 1-5-2; $ 4-4-5; rf 2-8-3-2 mm. 



Hab. Western India ( Wroughtori) ; Ceylon (Green); Burma 

 (Bingham). 



278. Phidole nietneri, Emery, J)eut. ent. Zeit. 1901, p. 118, I/ $; 

 Forel, Rev, Suisse Zool. x (1902), p. 175, 1/ ; id Jour. Bomb. 

 N. H. Soc. xiv (1902), pp. 531 & 543. 



I/ . Brownish yellow, the head on the vertex, the pronotum 

 above, the 2nd node of the pedicel and abdomen brown, the 

 antenna? and legs slightly lighter brownish yellow ; pilosity abun- 

 dant and comparatively long; head in front up to the vertex 

 longitudinally striate, the vertex and posterior portion of the head 

 smooth, polished and shining ; thorax irregularly sculptured, 

 punctured 011 the sides, transversely striate on the pronotum ; 

 the metanotum above shining, but with fine punctures ; pedicel 

 and abdomen polished and shining. Head longer than broad, the 

 occipital emargination moderately deep ; mandibles smooth, shining, 

 with a few scattered punctures ; clypeus medially slightly carinate, 

 its anterior margin transverse ; antenna) comparatively long, the 

 scape falling short of the top of the head by about one quarter of 

 its length, antennal groove shallow and rather broad. Thorax 

 wide anteriorly, the pronotal tubercles obtuse but distinct, the 

 mesonotal transverse groove shallow, the ridge posterior to it rather 

 thick ; metanotal spines short, erect, acute. Pedicel : the 1st 

 node about twice as broad as long, rounded above, without an 

 appendix beneath ; the 2nd node transversely fusiform, more than 

 twice as broad as the 1st node; abdomen depressed, seen from 

 above circular. 



" g . Brownish yellow, head darker, abdomon brown, mandibles, 



