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HYMENOPTERA. 



Acrocoslia Mayrj, Schmidt, Mayr. Beitr. zur Kennin. der Ameis. 



p. 14. 

 Creraatogaster sordidula, Mayr. Form. Austr. 200. 

 Hab. Europe (France ; Austria); Dalmatia. 



3. Crematogaster castaneus. pi. IX. fig. 2. B.M. 



Worker. Length 2 lines . — Head and thorax rufo-ferruginous ; 

 abdomen brownish-black, with the base obscure rufo-fuscous. 

 The head, seen above, rotnndate, scarcely shining; the thorax 

 deeply constricted at the base of the metathorax, which is armed 

 with two diverging acute spines ; the legs ferruginous, the tibise 

 and tarsi darkest. Abdomen : the first node of the petiole, 

 viewed in front, heart-shaped, the pointed end upwards; the 

 second node globose, with a deep longitudinal incision above. 



Female. Length 4 lines. ^ — Rufo'-ferruginous, smooth and 

 shining : the thorax with a central and two lateral longitudinal 

 rufo-fuscous stripes, the metathorax not spined ; wings hyaline, 

 the nervures testaceous. Abdomen oblong, the apical margins of 

 the segments fuscous, and slightly depressed and thinly sprinkled 

 vcith short cinereous pubescence. 



Hab. Albania. 



4. Crematogaster Kirbii. 



Myrmica Kirbii, Sykes, Trans. Ent. Soc. i. 99. t. 13. f . 2 ? , 3 <? , 

 and f. 1. nest. 



Jerdon, Madr. Journ. Lit. 4- Sc. 114; Ann. ^- Mag. Nat. 

 Hist, new ser. xiii. 55. 20. 



Hab. India (Poona, and forests of the Wynaad). 



5. Crematogaster anthracinus. B.M. 



Worker. Length H line. — Jet-black, smooth and shining: 

 the face with a few delicate stria;, the extreme base of the scape 

 and the apex of the fiagellum pale testaceous. Thorax flat- 

 tened above, opake and finely rugose ; the metathorax armed on 

 each side with an acute spine ; the tarsi pale testaceous, the claw- 

 joint darkest. Abdomen heart-shaped, smooth, shining and im- 

 punctate. 



Hab. Singapore. 



6. Crematogaster inflatus. PI. IX. fig. 1. B.M. 



Worker. Length 2} lines.— Black, smooth and shining: the 

 antenna- dark rufo-piceous ; the mandibles ferruginous, striated, 

 with their teeth black; the eyes small and lateral, placed about 



