HYMENOPTERA. 13 



Species of India. Ceylon. Singapore. Malacca. Java. Su- 

 matra. Borneo. Celebes. China. Philippine Islands. 

 (Sp.42&43.) 



SUBDIVISION 1. 



Anterior wings with one marginal, two submarginal, and one 

 discoidal cell. The scale of the peduncle flattened and vertical. 



42. FORMICA CRINITA. B.M. 



Female. Length 4 lines. Ochraceous : very closely resem- 

 bling F. umbrata ; the head as wide as the thorax ; the eyes ovate, 

 placed a little above the middle at the sides of the head, which 

 is thinly covered with a fine silky down ; the mandibles pubes- 

 cent. Thorax ovate, thinly sprinkled above with long pale hairs ; 

 wings slightly fuliginous, the nervures testaceous. Abdomen 

 ovate, covered with a thick, long, pale yellow pubescence ; the 

 scale subovate, fringed with pale hairs. 



Hab. Northern India. 



43. FORMICA TAPROBANE. B.M. 



Female. Length 2 lines. Head, antennae, thorax and legs 

 red ; abdomen black. Head subovate, the front convex, finely 

 roughened and semi-opake, very slightly emarginate behind. The 

 thorax rugose, the scutellum and metathorax coarsely so ; the 

 wings hyaline, the stigma large and brown, the nervures pale 

 testaceous ; the anterior pair with one discoidal cell ; the tarsi 

 pale testaceous, the claw-joint black. Abdomen black, shining, 

 and globose. 



Hab. Ceylon. 



This may possibly be the F. abdominalis of Latreille, but as 

 the neuration of the wings cannot be determined from his descrip- 

 tion, their identity is uncertain. 



SUBDIVISION 2. (Sp. 44-95.) 



Anterior wings with one marginal and two submarginal cells, 

 the discoidal cells obsolete. The scale of the peduncle usually 

 incrassate, generally much more so than in the first subdivision, 

 sometimes subquadrate, sometimes subnodose. 



44. FORMICA COMPRESSA. B.M. 



Formica compressa, Fabr. Mant. Ins. i. 307. 2 $ ; Ent. Syst. ii. 

 350. 2 ; Syst. Piez. 396. 2. 

 Oliv. Encycl. Meth. vi. 491. 

 Latr. Hist. Nat. Fourm. 111. 



