174 hymenoptera. 



6. Pheidole diversa. 



(Ecodoma diversa, Jerdon, Madr. Jrmrn. Lit. 8f Sc. 109 (1851) ; 

 Ann. 4" Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2. xiii. 51. 10 (1854). 



Hub India (Wynaad). 



/. Pheidole affinis. 



(Ecodoma affinis, Jerdon, Madr. Journ. Lit. Sf Sc. 110 (1851); 

 Ann. S,- Mag. Nut. Hist. ser. 2. xiii. 51. 11 (1854). 



Hab. India (Malabar). 



8. Pheidole minor. 



(Ecodoma minor, Jerdon, Madr. Journ. Lit. ^- Sc. 110 (1851) ; 

 Ann. 8,- Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2. xiii. 51. 12 (1854). 



Hab. India (Tellicherry). 



f>. Pheidole quadrispinosa. 



(Ecodoma quadrispinosa, Jerdon, Madr. Journ. Lit. ^ Sc. Ill 

 (1851); Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2. xiii. 52 (1854). 



Hab. India (Malabar). 



10. Pheidole ocellifera. B.M. 



"Worker. Length 6-6i lines. — Dark chestnut-brown, shining ; 

 in some cases the abdomen is nearly black. Head very large, 

 larger and wider than the abdomen ; eyes small and ovate, placed 

 before the miildle at the sides ; in a line with the eyes, in the 

 middle of the face, is a single ocellus ; a deeply impressed line 

 extends from the vertex to the anterior margin of the face ; the 

 head longitudinally striated in front, the striation somewhat 

 curved at the sides of the insertion of the antenna;, the stria; ex- 

 tending upwards, as high as the upper margin of the eves in the 

 middle of the front, and the entire length of the head at the sides 

 and beneath ; the vertex transversely striated, the stris curving 

 at the sides, and uniting with that which runs down the sides of 

 the head, the head deeply eraarginate behind ; mandibles very 

 stout, their inner edge smooth, not toothed ; the pro- and meta* 

 thorax transversely striated, the mesothorax and scutellum shining, 

 with a few scattered punctures ; the metathorax armed with two 

 stout acute spines. Abdomen ovate, smooth and shining ; the 

 apical margins of the segments rufo-piceous, the nodes of the pe- 

 tiole incrassate, the first striated and notched above, the second 

 node with the upper margin smooth and shining. 



Hab. Birmah ; Hong Kong ; Philippine Islands. 



