TECHNO.MYUMEX. JJOl 



Key to the Species. 



a. Anterior margin of clypeus with a deep cres- 



centic emargination. 

 '. Scape of antemue scarcely extending beyond 



top of head. 

 *. Black, the tarsi white or brownish white 



in marked contrast j\ a iJ)ip s p . 301 



b-. Keddish brown, the tarsi slightly paler not 



in contrast T. brunneus^.SW. 



b . bcape of antennae extending beyond top of 



head by one-fourth of its length T. tricolor, p. 302. 



o. I he anterior margin of the clypeus very slightly 



and widely emarginate . . . . T. elatior, p. 302. 



341. Technomyrinex albipes, Smith (Tapinoma), Jour. Linn. Soc vi 

 (1861), p. 38, ; Forei, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. ix (1895), 

 p. 466. 



. Black, somewhat shining; the mandibles reddish or yellowish 

 brown, the tarsi white; the head, thorax and abdomen very 

 finely and closely reticulate-punctate, covered with a thin very 

 short silky- white pubescence, and a few scattered erect pale hairs 

 on the front of the head and apex of the abdomen. Head longer 



Fig. 91. Technomijrmex albipes, 



than broad, cordate or widely emarginate posteriorly ; mandibles 

 characteristic of tbe genus ; clypeus with the anterior margin 

 medially and circularly incised; antennae with the 2nd and succeed- 

 ing joints (except the apical joint) as broad as long or broader. 

 Thorax, pedicel and abdomen with the characters as in the genus ; 

 the thoracic emargination at the meso-metariotal suture wide but 

 not very deep. 



$ . Resembles the , but has the head, thorax and abdomen 

 subopaque, not so shining; the antenna) are dark brown, the legs 

 castaneous red, the tarsi being white as in the $ . For the rest, 

 see the characters of the genus. 



Lenyth, 2-5-3 : $ slightly over 3 mm. 



Jfb. Throughout our limits, and spread over the whole of the 

 tropics of the Old World. The species is frequently imported 

 into Europe with tropical plants ; 1 have seen many specimens 

 from the Kevv Gardens. A variety with the tarsi brown instead 



