16 HYMENOPTERA. 



53. FORMICA RUFOGLAUCA. 



Formica rufoglauca, Jerdon, Madr. Journ. Lit. fy Sc. (1851) 

 124; Ann. $ Mag. Nat. Hist. 2nd ser. xiii. 107. 4. 



Hob. India (the Carnatic). 



54. FORMICA PHYLLOPHILA. 



Formica phyllophila, Jerdon, Madr. Journ. Lit. <$ Sc. (1851) 



125 ? ; Ann. fy Mag. Nat. Hist. 2nd ser. xiii. 107. 43. 

 Hab. India. 



55. FORMICA CARBONARIA. 



Formica carbonaria, Latr. Hist. Nat. Fourm. 114. pt. 3. f. 8 . 

 Hab. India. 



56. FORMICA RUFICORNIS. 



Formica ruficornis, Fabr. Syst. Piez. 397. 6. 

 Hab. India. 



57. FORMICA STRICTA. B.M. 



Formica stricta, Jerdon, Madr. Journ. Lit. fy Sc. (1851) 

 123 ; Ann. $ Mag. Nat. Hist. 2nd ser. xiii. 105. 37. 

 Smith, Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc. ii. 53. 3. 



Hab. India (Malabar) ; Borneo (Sarawak). 



The insect which I take to be the F. stricta has the head 

 square, or rather oblong; the insect is of an obscure blackish - 

 green and covered with cinereous pile ; the eyes are placed high 

 at the sides of the head ; the face from the base of the clypeus 

 is obliquely truncated, the truncation being roughly striated; 

 the thorax is narrowed posteriorly, and the metathorax has two 

 little points or tubercles, one on each side; the scale of the 

 peduncle is raised, incrassate, rounded and emarginate above; 

 the legs shining black. The small worker has the head rounder, 

 not truncated in front. 



The female has the head truncated in front ; the thorax and 

 the abdomen elongate-ovate, the former smooth and shining 

 above; the wings subhyaline, the nervures testaceous, with a 

 narrow fuscous stain running along the course of the nervures ; 

 the insect tinged with green, the abdomen covered with glittering: 

 cinereous pile. 



