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abdominal segments yellowish. Head, thorax and abdomen finely, 

 very closely rugulose, subopaque. Head without the mandibles seen 

 from the front long, narrow, somewhat rectangular, but with the 

 angles rounded, as broad posteriorly as in front ; mandibles 

 broadly triangular, armed with 6-7 teeth ; clypeus broadly pro- 

 duced in the middle into a lobe, convex in the middle, concave at 

 the sides, and with a distinct medial carina ; antennal carinae long 

 and divergent posteriorly, antennae long, the scape passing the 

 top of the head by about one-third of its length. Thorax long 

 and narrow in profile, forming a single curve above ; legs long, 

 slender, the pubescence on the tibiae close and recumbent. Node 

 of pedicel as in C. mit-is; abdomen long and narrowly oval. 



min. Closely resembles the maj., with similar coloration, 

 pilosity, and sculpture, but the head is proportionately smaller, 

 the antennae more slender and longer, the scape extending by 

 about half its length beyond the top of the head, while the thorax 

 is narrower and not so strongly arched. 



Length, $ vnaj- 8; $ min. 0*5 -j $ 11 mm. 



Hob. Eecorded so far only from Kashmir (2nd Yark. Miss. Coll. 

 <Sf Lobiuiere). 



403. Camponotus irritans, Smith (Formica), Proc. Linn. Soc. ii (1857), 



p. 55, 9 : id. Cat. vi (1858), p. 25, $ . 



Camponotus agnatus, Roger, Berlin, ent. Zeit. vii (1863), p. 137, . 

 Camponotus maculatus, Fabr., race irritans (Smit/i), Forel, Jour. 



Bomb. N. H. Soc. vii (1892), pp. 230 & 242, $ . 

 $ maj. Head and abdomen shining, dark castaneous brown 

 flagelluni of the antenna, thorax, pedicel and legs honey-yellow ; 

 the front and vertex of the head, but not the cheeks, the thorax, 

 node of pedicel and abdomen above, with sparse erect pubescence, 

 head, thorax and abdomen extremely lightly and finely reticulate- 

 punctate but not opaque. Head subtriangular, very convex in 

 front ; mandibles with 7 teeth ; clypeus tectiform, raised along the 

 medial carina ; median lobe extremely short ; antennae and eyes as 

 in C. compretru*. Thorax proportionately longer, narrower, more 

 compressed in front : legs covered with a fine, short, oblique 

 pubescence, tibia? slightly compressed. Node of pedicel narrow, 

 conical, convex in front, flat posteriorly ; abdomen shorter and 

 distinctly narrower than the head. 



$ min. Similar, slighter, the head concolorous with the thorax, 

 oval, rounded posteriorly, and only a little wider than the thorax. 

 Length, $ maj. 8-10 ; $ min. (5-7 mm. 



Nab. India, Ceylon (YtrTnmj, Green} ; Malay Peninsula (Ford) ; 

 Bankok (%/). I procured C. irritans only at Mergui, in 

 south of Tenasserim. 



404. Camponotus taylori. 



Camponotus maculatus, Fabr., race taylon, lorel, Jour. Homh. 



N. H. Soc. vii (1892), pp. 229 & 241, $ . 

 $ maj. Castaneous brown, the mandibles, antennae, thorax and 



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