HYMENOPTERA. 13 



Species of India. Ceylon. — Singapore. — Malacca. — Jatia. — 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 tlie sides of the head, which 

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

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

 wings slightly fuliginous, tlie 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, antenna;, thorax and legs 

 red; abdomen black. Her.d subovate, the front convex, flnelv 

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

 thorax rugose, the scutellum and inetathorax coarsely so ; the 

 wings hyaUne, 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 jjossibly be the F. abdominalis of Latreille, but as 

 the neiu-ation 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 u 

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

 Oliv. Encycl. Meth. vi. 491. 

 Latr. Hist. Nat. Fourm. HI. 



