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below the level of the thorax and abdomen, the latter very massive 

 and gibbous in front. Wings subhyaline, nervures brownish 

 yellow. 



d" . Brownish yellow, antennae and legs paler yellow. Head 

 oval ; eyes and ocelli very prominent. Thorax a little broader 

 than the head, the raesonotum broad and gibbous in front ; wings 

 as in the $ . " Genital valves small, pale in colour. The ex- 

 terior valves constricted at the apex, with a very narrow appendix 

 above, and below terminating in a slightly protuberant angle." 

 (Forel.) 



. Unknown. 



Length, $ a little over 4 ; J 1'5 mm. 



Hah. Recorded as yet only from Dehra Dun, North-West 

 Provinces of India (Smythies). 



378. Prenolepis birmana, Forel, Ann. Soc. Ent, Bely. xlvi (1902), 



p. 291. 



. Head and abdomen black ; thorax fuscous dark brown, 

 antennae and legs a shade paler ; apex of the maudibles and tarsi 

 yellowish ; the metanotum posteriorly polished and shining, the 

 remainder of the head, thorax and abdomen more or less opaque 

 or subopaque, finely and very closely reticulate, the abdomen in 

 certain lights shining in parts. Pilosity moderately long and 

 abundant, the tibiae and scapes of the antennae with more or 

 less dense recumbent hairs. Head without the mandibles rect- 

 angular, with a distinct posterior margin ; mandibles narrow, the 

 masticatory margin armed with 5 teeth ; clvpeus narrow, convex ; 

 antennas long and slender; eyes small, placed a little lower than 

 the middle of the head. Thorax as in P. longicornis, but mon- 

 stoutly built, the meso-inetanotal suture deeply impressed. Node 

 of pedicel and abdomen as in P. longicornis, out the latter 

 more truncate and not projecting anteriorly so much over the 

 node. 



Length, 3 mm. 



Hub. Tenasserim, Moulmein (Hodgson) ; Tavoy (Bingham). 



379. Prenolepis naorojii, Forel, Ann. Soc. Ent. Bely. xlvi (1902), 



p. 2SJO. 



g. Head, thorax, the coxse > femora and tibiae of the legs 

 yellowish brown ; abdomen brown ; antenme and the tarsi pale 

 yellowish ; very smooth, polished, and shining, in certain lights 

 the abdomen minutely reticulate; pilosity yellowish, fine and 

 remarkably long, the scape of the antenna; and the tibiae with 

 shorter oblique hairs. Head broadly oval ; mandibles pilose, 

 shining, the masticatory margin aruif d with teeth ; clypeus 

 convex, broad, anteriorly rounded, medially longitudinally rann;it- : 

 antennas proportionately as long almost as in P. lonyicomit, the 

 scape extending beyond the occiput by more than half its length ; 



