246 JORMJCIDJE. 



flagellum of the antennae and legs (excepting the femora which 

 are brownish) reddish yellow. Very shining, the pilosity long. 

 Head elongate, rectang'ular, with the posterior margin rounded, 

 cheeks minutely longitudinally sculptured. Clypeus vaulted, its 

 anterior margin arched. Mandibles finely denticulate. Antennal 

 carinje reaching up to the margin of the eyes. The scape ex- 

 tending beyond the top of the head, antennal joints 3-6 not 

 longer than broad. The thorax in profile has the pro- and 

 mesonotum arched. Pronotum smooth, laterally tuberculate. 

 Mesonotum above with shallow punctures. Sides of the meso- 

 and metathorax and the epinotum densely punctured, opaque. 

 Epinotuin above flat and with both sides obtusely rounded and 

 set with an acute erect spine. Pedicel somewhat smaller, and 

 with a less elevated node than in the I/ . The post-pedicel trans- 

 versely oval, about as broad as the pedicel." (Emery.} 



Lenc/th, }/ 3-5 ; $ 1-8 mm. 



Hab. Ceylon, Bandarawella (Horn); Burma, Pegu Yom a (Allan). 



The Burmese specimen, a I/, which I have identified as this 

 species, is somewhat lighter in colour and with the thorax more 

 slightly sculptured. 



279. PMdole capellinii, Emery, Ann. Mus. Oii: Gen. xxv (1887), 

 p. 463, footnote I/, pi. 1, fig 1 . 14; Forel (var. asperata, Em.}, 

 Rev. Suissc Zool. x (1902), p. 175, I/ ; id. Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. 

 xiv (1902), pp. 531 & 543. 



I/ . Chestnut -red, the anrennse and legs a shade lighter in colour, 

 abdomen brown, shading into black at the apex ; pilosity exceedingly 

 sparse, consisting of only a few scattered hairs : pubescence absent. 

 Head large, elongate, much longer than broad, feebly striate in 

 front, reticulate on the rounded posterior lateral lobes ; the front 

 below the vertex and the clypeus remarkably flat, forming a plane, 

 vertex itself with a shallow but distinct and broad transverse 

 impression ; sides of the head very slightly convex, more or less 

 parallel, the occipital emargination deep, the posterior lateral 

 lobes large and not divergent ; mandibles massive, broad, shining, 

 striate at base ; clypeus anteriorly slightly emarginate in the 

 middle, the portion between the antennal caring posteriorly 

 distinctly limited ; antenual carina? slightly arched outwards, 

 Avidely divergent and long, the antennal grooves well-marked, 

 rugulose within. Thorax : the pronotum long, attenuate in front, 

 the lateral tubercles very prominent, the mesonotal transverse 

 groove shallow, the transverse ridge well-marked ; basal portion of 

 metanotum slightly oblique, depressed, the metanotal spines short 

 and rather obtuse at apex. Pedicel : the nodes broader than long. 

 trausverse ; abdomen broadly oval. 



$ . Somewhat lighter in colour than the I/ . Head oval, with a 

 distinct posterior border, very slightly but perceptibly emarginate ; 

 front of the head and clypeus scarcely flattened as in the If. , not 

 forming a marked plane ; antennas stout and long, the scape 



