256 FOHMICIDjE. 



longitudinal groove ; metanotal spines long, suberect, curved and 

 acute. Pedicel : the 1st node transverse above, emarginate and 

 subdentate, without appendix beneath ; 2nd node rounded above, 

 transversely oval, the lateral angles produced and acute ; abdomen 

 very broadly oval. 



Length, "if. 4'5-5 mm. 



Hab. Upper Burma, the Chin Hills. 



A few specimens, all I/ I/ , of this very distinct species were sent 

 to me by post, alive, in a joint of bamboo, by some unknown 

 correspondent. There was a pencil note with them to the effect 

 that they were taken crawling over a grave in a Chin village. 



291 . Phidole jucunda, Forel, J. A. S. B. liv, pt. 2 (1885), p. 179, 11 ; 

 id. Rev. Suiise Zuol. x (1902), pp. 18U & 196, l/; id. Jour. 

 Bomb. K H. Soc. xiv (1902), pp. 535 & 545. 



I/ . Brownish cinnamon-red, the abdomen brown ; head coarsely 

 longitudinally striate ; thorax rather finely but obscurely trans- 

 versely sculptured ; abdomen smooth, but dull and subopaque. 

 Pilosity very sparse, reduced to a few scattered hairs. Head nearly 

 square, the occipital emargination moderately deep and wide; 

 mandibles minutely obscurely striate, with also a few distinct 

 puin-tures ; clypeus with a triangular medial depression bearing a 

 medial vertical carina ; antennae comparatively long, the apex of 

 the scape falling short of the top of the head by about a third of 

 its length ; antennal groove deep and coarsely sculptured within. 

 Thorax : the pronotum convex, rather elongate anteriorly, the 

 lateral tubercles very obtuse and indistinct, mesonotal transverse 

 groove arid ridge well-marked; basal portion of metanotum rect- 

 angular, laterally margined ; metanotal spines short, stout, acute. 

 Pedicel: the 1st node squauiiform, low, transverse above, with no 

 appendix beneath ; the 2nd node transverse, sculptured, opaque, 

 laterally obtusely cone-shaped ; abdomen broadly oval. 



. Dark cinnamon-red, the abdomen dark brown. Head and 

 thorax finely, closely reticulate-punctate, subopaque, abdomen 

 somewhat smooth and shining. Head oval, the antennae pubes- 

 cent, stout and long, the scape extending by about one-third of 

 its length beyond the top of the head. Thorax elongate, the 

 transverse mesonotal furrow and ridge well-marked, the former 

 deep and wide ; raetauotal spines comparatively short, but stout 

 and very acute. Pedicel : the 1st node small, the 2nd node much 

 larger, rhombiform and rounded ; abdomen opaque at base, smooth 

 posteriorly. 



Lmgtlt,'lL 4-4*5 ; $ 2-2-5 mm. 



Hab. Sikhim (M'oller} ; Calcutta (Kothmy} ; Western India 

 (Wrougliton}; Ceylon (Bingham). The Ceylon form is paler with 

 the head a little longer and narrower, and the 2nd node of the 

 pedicel not so broad, but otherwise it does not seem to me to differ 

 from the typical form. 



