ANEU11ETUS. DOLTCHODERUS. 291 



Pedicel elongate, cylindrical, posteriorly with a minute globose 

 node. Abdomen almost entirely without a constriction between 

 the basal two joints. Legs slender, calcaria slightly denticulate, 

 claws simple. (After Enter;/.) 



329. Aneuretus simoni, Emery, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. Ixii (1893), 

 p. 242, . 



. Testaceous, subopaque, the abdomen more shining, pubes- 

 cent and sparsely pilose ; head cordate posteriorly, widely 

 emarginate, very finely and lightly reticulate, the mandibles 

 somewhat smooch, the apex tridentate and in addition a little 



Fig. ST. Aneuretus nimoiii, $ . (After Emory.) 



irregularly denticulate ; the scape of the antenna) extending 

 beyond the top of the head ; joints 5-10 of the slender flagellum 

 thickening gradually, all the joints longer than broad ; the pro- 

 mesonotal suture distinct, meso-metanotal suture deep and 

 broadly impressed, pronotum very lightly longitudinally striate, 

 metanotum transversely striate; the scutellum elevated, meta- 

 notum transversely rugose-striate, the base slightly gibbous, 

 posteriorly armed with long divergent spines ; pedicel with a 

 small round node having anteriorly an elongate petiole." (Emery.) 



Letigili, $ 1*8 mm. 



Hal. Ceylon. 



Genus DOLICHODERUS. 



Formica, pt., Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 10, i (1758), p. 581. 

 Dolichoderus, Lund, Ann. So. Nat. xxiii (1831), p. 130. 

 llypoclinea (Forst.), Mayr, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wie, v (185~>), 



p. 377. 



Type, D. atteJahoides, Lund, from Brazil. 

 Range. Both hemispheres. 



. Head short, generally almost as broad as long, the front 

 iind the cheeks very convex ; in the Indian species not constricted 

 into a neck posteriorly ; mandibles triangular, very broad at the 

 masticatory margin, which is straight and furnished with numerous 

 {10-12) small teeth ; clvpeus very slightly convex in all the species, 



