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mandibles narrow, acutely dentate along the masticatory margin, 

 with the apices crossing and folded beneath the margin of the 

 clypeus ; clypeus convex, carinate, with its anterior margin 

 medially angular; eyes very prominent; antenna) long, filiform, 

 the joints of the flagellum much longer than broad. Thorax 

 narrow, elongate, constricted at the mesonotum ; the meao-meta- 

 notal suture slightly emarginate ; the metanotum rounded, convex 

 and gibbous ; legs extremely long and slender. Node of the 

 pedicel thick, low, conical, rounded above ; abdomen broadly oval, 

 short and massive. 



Length, 3'5-4-5 mm. 



Hob. Throughout our limits except in the hot dry portions of 

 the North- Western Provinces, the Punjab and parts of Central 

 India. Common in Ceylon and Burma. 



362. Plagiolepis moelleri, n. sp. 



. Head and thorax deep reddish brown, antennae and legs 

 lighter red-brown, node of the pedicel and abdomen black ; head, 

 thorax and abdomen covered with long soft pubescence, pale 

 yellowish on the front of the head and the thorax, black on the 

 abdomen ; pilosity almost entirely wanting, confined to a few 

 scattered erect hairs chiefly on the front of the head and the apical 

 segments of the abdomen. The pubescence on the basal two 

 abdominal segments is thick, and gives the segments an opaque 

 appearance. Head subtriangular, very broad and emarginate 

 posteriorly ; mandibles broad, the masticatory margin very oblique, 

 dentate, the teeth very long and acute ; clypeus strongly medially 

 carinate, the medial angle on the anterior margin ill-defined ; 

 frontal area distinct, antennal carina? parallel ; antenna? com- 

 paratively short and stout; eyes comparatively small, placed 

 midway on the sides of the head. Thorax short and broad ; 

 pronotum very convex and gibbous ; mesonotum seen from above 

 almost circular, convex ; meso-metanotal emargination broad and 

 deep ; metanotura short and very broad, the basal portion about 

 the same length as the oblique apical portion, into which it passes 

 by a distinct angle ; legs short and stout. Node of the pedicel 

 low, transverse, rounded above ; abdomen broadly oval, massive. 



Length, $ 4*5 mm. 



Hab. Sikhim (Holler). 



363. Plagiolepis wroughtoni, Ford. 



Plao-iolepis rothneyi, race wroughtoni, Forel, Ann, Soc Ent. Bclg. 

 xlvi (1902), p. 292, $. 



$ . Black with, in certain lights, a purple gloss on the abdomen, 

 very smooth and shining, antennae and legs reddish brown, tarsi 

 yellowish white, mandibles ferruginous. Pilosity and pubescence 

 very sparse ; flagellum of the antennae only somewhat densely 

 pubescent. Head square, slightly emarginate posteriorly ; man- 



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