368 F0RMICID.S. 



recumbent white pubescence, and more sparsely with longer erect 

 pale yellow hairs. Head elongate, occiput rounded and sloped 

 posteriorly, but slightly wider posteriorly than anteriorly ; man- 

 dibles comparatively broad, with 5 teeth ; clypeus broad, convex, 

 strongly carinate down the middle and sublobed ; antennae long 

 and somewhat thick. Thorax proportionately rather broad, the 

 mesonotum large and slightly gibbous ; legs long and robust r 

 the tibi* cylindrical. Node of pedicel thick, biconvex, the upper 

 margin rounded and fringed with long erect hairs ; abdomen 

 broadly oval. 



Length, maj. 6*5-7 ; $ min. 3'5-5 mm. 



Hal. Upper Burma, Mandalay (Bingham) ; Tenasserim (Hodgson ). 

 I did not procure the $ maj. and quote Dr. Forel's description. 



429. Camponotus crassisquamis, Forel, Ann. Soc. Ent. Beige, xlvi 

 (1902), p. 286, $ maj. et min. 



maj. Fuscous black ; the abdomen with a bluish metallic 

 reflection as in Lobopelta chinensis, and the margins of the 

 segments yellow ; the lateral occipital angles, masticatory margins 

 of the mandibles, the flagellum of the antennae and the legs 

 reddish brown. Pilositv reddish yellow, long and abundant, 

 especially on the front of the head and the abdomen above ; 

 pubescence, except on the flagellum of the antennae where it is 

 sparse, entirely wanting. Head reticulate-punctate, subopaque, 

 longer than broad, the occiput slightly emargiuate, nearly trans- 

 verse, the cheeks very convex ; eyes lateral, placed somewhat to 

 the front ; mandibles dull, subopaque, with a few coarse punctures ; 

 clypeus longitudinally medially carinate for one-third of its 

 length from base, the median lobe shortly produced and rect- 

 angular ; antennae long and slender, the scape extending beyond 

 the top of theliead by about a fourth of its own length. Thorax 

 reticulate-punctate, subopaque, strongly compressed posteriorly ; 

 legs long and slender, the tibiae not spinous beneath. Node of 

 pedicel very thick in profile, triangular, with a rounded top and 

 not high, its upper margin lo\ver than the dorsum of the meta- 

 notum ; abdomen massive, broadly oval. 



min. Resembles the $ maj., but is smaller and with a 

 proportionately smaller head, which viewed from the front is oval 

 with the occiput rounded ; the abdomen is shorter, roundly oval 

 and very convex. 



Length, $ maj. 8 ; $ min. 5'5-6'5 mm. 

 Hub. Assam (Smythies) ; Bhamo, Upper Burma (Bingham). 

 The Burmese specimens vary somewhat in colour, one maj. 

 has the head and thorax dull red, somewhat like C. rufoglaucus, 

 but then it lacks the fine silky pubescence of the latter, and 

 from the shape of the node of the pedicel it is clearly C. crassi- 

 squamis. 



