48 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1892. 



*' platform; it is hot to be found so low down as Burdwan^ and I 

 " have not found it at Lucknow. The late Frederick Smith 

 " suspected this ant of practising slavery ; but, though it certainly 

 "does send out scouting parties, of twenty or so strong, which 

 *' cover the ground at the double, I have never detected any 

 '^evidence of slavery." This form is found unchanged in Europe 

 and on the African coast of the Mediterranean. 



B. DOLICHODERID^. 



In this group the cloacal orifice is large, linear, transverse 



inferior, and non-ciliate. Seen from above, only 4 segments of the 



abdomen are visible, the last is hidden from view below the 



penultimate. 



Gen. 11. Technomyrmex (Mayr). 



In this genus the apical segment of the abdomen can be seen 

 looking from above ; it is the only exception to the rule. 



60. Tech. alhipes (Smith). 

 Poona Districts. 



Ceylon.. Major Yerbury. 



I have only met this species once, viz., at Khandala. It was 

 swarming up and down a tree, to and from some food at the top ; 

 what this food was I could not discover. 



61. Tech. hru7ieipes (Mayr). 



Coonoor, Madras .....R. W. Daly. 



Ceylon , Major Yerbury, 



Gen. 12. Bothriomyrmex (Emery). 



The knot is thin and distinctly inclined forward ; the first segment 

 of the abdomen is slightly produced towards the petiole — ^ $ cJ 

 are all the same size. 



62. Both. Wroughtoni (Forel in MS.). 

 Poona Districts. 



I have only found this microscopic species once, the nest was in a 

 gall on a leaf of Karanj {Pongamia glabra) ; there were more than a 

 score of individuals in the community, yet the gall was scarcely as 

 large as a pea. 



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