hymenopteka. 19 



65. Formica lutea. B.M. 



Female. Length 5 lines. — Yellow : the head oblong, widest 

 at the vertex, which is slightly emarginate ; eyes ovate, placed 

 rather high on the sides of the head ; the clypeus subcarinate in 

 the middle, slightly emarginate anteriorly ; the mandibles stout, 

 triangular, toothed on their inner margin, the teeth black. 

 Thorax oblong-ovate, very smooth and shining above ; the point 

 of attachment of the wings black ; the scale of the peduncle 

 ovate, emarginate above. Abdomen ovate, smooth and shining ; 

 the head, thorax and abdomen sprinkled with long, erect, pale 

 hairs. 



Hab. Northern India. 



66. Formica GiBBOSA. PI. II. fig. 2. B.M. 



Worker. Length 3 lines. — Head, scape of the antennae, 

 thorax and legs fusco-testaceous ; the flagellum, mandibles, 

 tarsi and abdomen pale testaceous, varying sometimes in being 

 almost entirely pale. The antenna; a little longer than the head 

 and thorax; eyes black and prominent, placed laterally about 

 the middle of the head. Thorax not so wide as the head, the 

 prothorax rounded at the sides, the meso- and metathorax nar- 

 rower, the latter flattened and oblong-quadrate above, the lateral 

 margins raised ; behind obliquely truncate ; a deep strangulation 

 between the meso- and metathorax, the latter being elevated ; 

 the legs slightly pubescent. Abdomen globose, and covered with 

 pale golden -yellow pubescence ; the scale of the jjeduncle incras- 

 sate, its anterior face rounder or concave, flattened, and slightly 

 hollowed out behind. 



Hab. India?. 



This species constructs its nest on leaves, the texture of which 

 closely resembles that of many small species of Vespidse ; in 

 fact it is quite possible that it may take ])ossessiou of a Vespi- 

 dious nest, and adapt it to its own purposes : the worker greatly 

 resembles in form that of the Eui'opean species Formica lateralis. 



67. Formica longipes. 



Formica longipes, Jerdon, Madr. Jonrn. Lit. Sf Sc. (1851) 122; 

 Anil. Sf- Mag. Nat. Hist. 2nd ser. xiii. 105. 35 (1854). 



Hab. India (in forests). Malacca. 



68. Formica variegata. B.M. 



Female. Length 5^ lines.— Reddish-brown, variegated with 

 yellow markings : the head oblong, widest at the vertex ; the 



