290 FORMICID.TC. 



curved outwards ; antennae 12-jointed, stout, planted immediately 

 behind tbe posterior margin of the clypeus ; eyes placed laterally 

 and a little forward in the middle line of the head ; ocelli (in the 

 Indian species) wanting. Thorax: the pro-meso- and meso-meta- 

 notal sutures well-marked, but in profile the line of the thorax 

 nowhere emarginate,the pro-,meso-and metanotum forminga slight 

 curve to the apex of the last, which is oblique but not truncate ; 

 legs rather long and slender, the calcaria pectinate, claws simple. 

 Node of the pedicel oval, not inclined, erect; abdomen broadly 

 oval, not gibbous in front. 



5 . Head somewhat broader than the thorax ; the mandibles, 

 clypeus, antennae, and calcaria as in the ; the frontal area in 

 form of an equilateral triangle, more distinct. Thorax depressed, 

 slightly flat. Front wing with two closed cubital cells. 



c? . Head much narrower than the thorax ; mandibles and 

 elypeus as in the $ ; antennae 13-jointed, the first three joints of 

 the flagellum longer than the scape ; the frontal area not distinct. 

 The thorax massive; the mesonotum flat, not overhanging the 

 prouotum. Node of the pedicel erect, rounded above. External 

 genitalia large and prominent. 



Only a single species of this genus has so far been recorded from 

 within our limits. 



'328. Liometopum lindgreeni, Forel, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xlvi (1902). 

 p. 293, $. 



$ . Head, thorax, legs, nodes of pedicel and base of abdomen 

 reddish brown ; rest of the abdomen dark brown, the margins of 

 the segments pale. Pilosity rather sparse, short and soft, pale 

 yellowish in colour, somewhat more abundant on the abdomen 

 than on the head and thorax ; pubescence pale, very dense and 

 decumbent, giving with the fine, close, minute reticulate punctate 

 sculpture an opaque appearance to the whole insect. For the 

 form of the head, thorax, &c. see the characters of the genus. 



Length, 4'5-5 mm. 



Hob. Assam, Dibrugarh (Lindgreen) ; Burma, Bhamo (Bingliam). 



Genus ANEURETUS. 

 Aneuretus, Emety, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. Ixii (1893), p. 241. 



Type, A. simoni, Emery, from Ceylon. 



Range. Recorded so far only from Ceylon. 

 $ . Head cordate. Clypeus large, subtriangular, anteriorly 

 medially emarginate, posteriorly produced between the bases 

 of the antennae, and with clypeal hollows. Antennal carinaa wide 

 apart, low, slightly divergent, nearly straight. Eyes depressed, 

 ocelli wanting. Mandibles triangular, the masticatory margin 

 denticulate. Antennas 12-jointed, slender, with an elongate scape 

 and filiform flagellum, gradually thickening towards the apex, 

 but without a distinct club, the apical joint subequal to the two 

 preceding joints. Thoracic sutures distinct, metanotum bispinous. 



