314 FORMICIDJE. 



-{">M. Myrmoteras binghami, Ford, Jour. Bomb. X. 11. Soc. viii 

 (1894), p. 419, . 



. Bright reddish brown, highly polished and shining ; antennae 

 and legs yellowish brown, mandibles yellow. Pilosity very sparse, 

 confined to a few scattered erect soft pale hairs, pubescence nil. 

 .Mandibles curved inwards at apex into an acute long tooth, armed 



Fig. 35.Mi/i->n1era* linf/liami, $ . rt. Head . 1>. Mandible. 



on the inner margin with altogether 11 teeth, of which the apical 

 and three or four subapical are long and acute ; of the minute 

 teeth two are preapical, lying between the 1st and 2nd long tooth, 

 and the rest towards the base. For the rest the characters of 

 the genus. 



Ltngtli, 7 mm., including the mandibles ; mandibles 2 mm. 



Hob. Thaungyin Valley, Tenasserim. 



Dr. Forel considers that the enormous size of the eyes marks 

 this species as probably a tree-ant. 



Genus ACANTHOLEPIS. 



Hypoclinea, pt., Mayr, Verh. zool.-bot. Vcr. Wicn, v (18-5.5), p. 377, . 

 Aeantholepis, Mayr, Eur. Form. 1861, p. 42, $ j. 



Type, A. frauenfeldi, Mayr, from Europe. 



Ranye. Palajarctic, Ethiopian, and Indo-Malayan regions. 



$ . Head without the mandibles quadrangular, somewhat 

 rounded above, the occiput not emarginate ; mandibles with the 

 masticatory margin oblique, dentate ; clypeus broad and high, 

 sharply carinate down the middle, clypeal and antennal hollows 

 confluent, large, frontal area small but distinct ; antennal carinse 

 short, wide apart, parallel ; antennae ] 1 -jointed, filiform, the scape 

 -elongate, reaching well beyond the top of the head; eyes of 

 moderate size ; ocelli distinct, rather widely separated one from 

 the other. Thorax constricted at the mesonotum ; the pronotum 

 bread and convex anteriorly, somewhat compressed and seemingly 

 pinched up posteriorly ; pro-meso- and meso-metanotal sutures 

 distinct; metauotum obtusely dentate on each side in the middle ; 

 legs somewhat long and slender. Pedicel one-jointed, with a 



