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legs of a lighter redder brown, minutely and closely reticulate- 

 punctate, the head and the thorax above with scattered larger 

 punctures ; pubescence sparse, short, ertct, a little more plentiful 

 on the front of the head, the cheeks and the abdomen. Head 

 subt riangular ; mandibles with 7 teeth; clypeus, antenna? and 



Fig. 110. Camponotus tai/luri, moj 



eyes as in C. compressus, but the median lobe of the clypeus is 

 very shortly produced. Thorax very broad and short, the pro- 

 thorax nearly as broad as the head ; legs comparatively short and 

 stout, covered with a short, not very dense recumbent pubescence; 

 tibiae cylindrical. Node of the pedicel as in 0. compressus, but not 

 so 'broad ; abdomen short and broad. 



Fig. 111. Camponotus (ftylori, $ min. 



$ min. Similar, more slender, head comparatively longer, nar- 

 rower, almost rectangular, broadly rounded posteriorly. Node of 

 pedicel conical ; abdomen narrow. 

 , Lenr/th, $ maj. 7-8 ; $ min. 5-5*5 mm. 



ffab. Distributed throughout India, but local. Eecorded from 

 the N.W. Himalayas (Smythies) ; Sikhim (MoUer); Orisa (Taylor}; 

 Poona ; the Nilgiris ( Wroughton) ; Ceylon (Yerlunj} Burma 

 (Allan} ; the Shan States (Craddock). The Ceylon form, slightly 

 darker, with longer legs, and the tarsi and flagellum yellowish, has 

 been separated by Forel as var. infuscoides. Var. albospaisus, 

 Forel, is redder in colour, with lateral yellow spots (somewhat 

 confluent) on the basal two abdominal segments. 1 found this a 

 common form in the Shan States, and observed a colony once 

 attending a number of larval Hemiptera. 



405. Camponotus infuscus, Forel. 



Camponotus maculatus, f'abi:, race infuscus. Forel, Jour. Bomb 

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



5 maj. Resembles C. taylori, but is a larger, more stoutly-built 

 and darker insect. Very dark castaneous brown, almost black ; 

 mandibles, clypeus, flagellum of the antennae and legs lighter 



