414 



Hab. Burma ; Tenasserim up to 5000 ft. (Fea Sf Bingham). A 

 common species in the Pegu Yoma, making comparatively large 

 nests among the leaves of trees. 



498 Polyrhachis rastellata, Latr. Hist. Nat. Fourm. 1802, p. 130, ; 



Forel, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. viii (1893), pp. 21 & 30, $ . 

 Polyi'hachis busiris & euryalus, Smith, Journ. Linn. Soc. \ (1861), 



p/98, pi. 1, fig. 15, , & vii (1863), p. 16, $ . 



g . Black : the coxa?, femora and tibiae of the legs blood-red, 

 the anterior coxae shaded with fuscous, the tarsi opaque, black. 

 Head, thorax and abdomen shining, polished and smooth; recum- 

 bent pubescence nil, pilosity very sparse, short and scattered. 



Head triangular, very broad 

 posteriorly, the vertex and 

 occiput rounded ; clypeus 

 convex, not carinate an- 

 teriorly, broadly emarginate 

 in the middle ; antennal 

 carina? widely divergent 

 posteriorly." Thorax very 

 convex and rounded above 

 viewed from the side, 

 strongly arched and gibbous 



anteriorly; pro-mesonotal suture distinct; meso-metanotal suture 

 obsolete; legs moderately long, smooth, not spined. Node of 

 pedicel thick at base, sloping rapidly to a sharp margin above, the 

 latter armed with four subequal acute teeth or spines, the median 

 two close together and vertical; abdomen globose, very convex 

 above. 



5 Very similar to the $ > but the thorax very broad and 

 massive, the node of the pedicel entirely unarmed and the abdomen 

 larger. 



Length, % 5-6-5 ; $ 8 mm. 



Hal. South Konkan ( Wroughton) ; Kanara (Aitken) ; Ceylon 

 ( Yerbury) ; Burma : Tenasserim (Bingham) ; Siam ; Sumatra ; 

 Borneo. 



Fig. 1-15. Polyrhachis rastellata. 



