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HYMENOPTERA. 



53. Formica rufoglauca. 



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

 124; Ann. 3f Mag. Nat. Hist. 2nd ser. xiii. 107. 4. 



Hub. India (the Camatic). 



54. Formica phyllophila. 



Formica phyllophila, Jerdon, Madr. Journ. Lit. i^ Sc. (1851) 

 125 ^ ; Ann. 4- Mag. Nat. Hist. 2nd ser. xiii. 10/. 43. 



Hub. 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. 39]. 6. 

 Hab. India. 



57. Formica stricta. B.M. 



Formica stricta, Jerdon, Madr. Journ. Lit. 8f Sc. (1851) 

 123 ^ ; Ann. 8f 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 obhquely 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. 



