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posterior node of the pedicel transversely sculptured. Pilosity 

 similar to that in the 7/ but more sparse. Head very short, 

 without the mandibles much broader than long, particularly broad 

 posteriorly, and very broadly but not deeply emarginate. Thorax : 

 the mesonotum flat above, very gibbous in front, the pronotum 

 well-depressed beneath it, the metanotal spines short and stout ; 

 the anterior node of the pedicel almost laminate with a sharp 

 margin, and broader above than at base ; posterior node and abdo- 

 men proportionately as in the I/ . Wings subhyaline, nervures 

 pale yellow. 



Length, I/ 4-5-5 ; 3; $ 6 mm. 



Hal. Throughout Continental India and Ceylon. 



Var. taprobarux, Forel, differs in having the head slightly larger 

 and more deeply emarginate. Var. micantiventris, Mayr (apud 

 Forel), has " the abdomen entirely opaque, finely striate-reticulate/' 



284. Phidole horni, Emery, Deutsch. cut. Zeit. 1901, p. 118, I/ : 



Forel, Rev. Suissc Zool. x (1902), p. 183, I/ ; id. Jour. Bomb. 

 N. H. Soc. xiv (1902), pp. 537 & 54(5. 



If. . Allied to and very closely resembling P. rhombinoda, Mayr. 

 Differs in being slightly larger and in having the head longer, 

 narrower anteriorly, with the occipital emargination not so shallow. 

 Head, thorax and abdomen bright reddish brown, the last darken- 

 ing posteriorly, with the apical margins of the segments yellowish, 

 the antennae and legs paler in colour. Pilosity, sculpture of the 

 head, and sculpture and form of the thorax as in P. rhombinoda. 

 Pedicel proportionately shorter, the 2nd node about as long and 

 about three times as broad as the 1st node. Metanotal spines 

 longer and more slender. For the rest as in P. rhombinoda. 



Length, I/ 5 mm. 



Hab. Ceylon (Horn <J* Green). 



Dr. Emery received this species from Bentota. I am not quite 

 certain whether the solitary specimen of a I/ described above 

 without any or 2 accompanying it, collected by Mr. E. E. 

 Green at Peradeniya, near Kaudy, has been correctly identified. 



285. Phidole sulcaticeps, Roger, Berl. ent. Zeit. vii (1863), p. 193, 1/; 



Forel, Rev. Suissc Zool. x (1902), pp. 178 & 195, 7/ ? ; id. Jmtr. 

 Bomb. N. H. Soc. xiv (1902), pp. 533 & 544. 



I/ . Eeddish brown, shining, the head and abdomen darker than 

 the thorax, the antennae and legs brownish yellow. Pilosity 

 reddish, abundant. Head rectangular, as broad posteriorly as in 

 front, and longer than broad, longitudinally striate, the stria> 

 curving laterally outwards and becoming transverse on the posterior 

 lobes, a distinct somewhat transverse depression on the vertex ; 

 mandibles smooth and shining, sparsely punctured : clypeus smooth 

 and slightlv depressed in the middle, its anterior margin medially 

 incised; antennal carintc short and rather prominent, antenna I 

 groove very marked, sculptured within and slightly widening at 



