50 JOURNAL,, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1892. 



Thana F. Gleadow. 



Orissa Jas. Taylor. 



Ceylon Major Terbury. 



Calcutta G. A. J. Eotliney. 



This is a minute species, but is very easily recognised by the 

 characteristic black head, which, even to the naked eye, contrasts 

 sti'ongly with the almost colourless, semi-transparent abdomen. It 

 is very common in the Dekhan, and may be found, in ascending and 

 descending lines, on almost every flowering tree; it is specially fond 

 of the Waras fBignonia quadrilocularis) . On one occasion I foand 

 a number of ^ visiting temporary chambers (they were certainly 

 not permanent nests) underground, at the roots of grass plants ; 

 and I found also aphides on the grass roots in these chambers. 

 Mr. de Niceville records it as tending the larvge of Zizera lysimon 

 (Hlibner), and Polyommatas hceticus (Lin.). Mr. Aitken notes that 

 *' when this ant is crushed it emits a very ofiensive odour.'' The 

 nest, which is usually under a stone, when uncovered, gives out a 

 strong odour rendered pungent by the admixture of formic acid. 



67. Ta'p. minutum (Mayr). 



Poona Districts. 



A very minute species. I found a community in a gall on the 

 Saundar fProsopis spicigera). 



Gen. 15. Dolichodeeus (Lin.). 

 Metanotura cubic, armed with two ' teeth ' at the posterior corners 

 of the dorsal surface ; knot thick, cuneiform, strongly inclined 

 forward. 



68. Dol. bituherculatus (Mayr), 



Mergui, Burma , ..Major Bingham. 



69. Dol. sulcaticeps (Mayr). 



Burma .» Major Bingham. 



Major Bingham writes : " I found this species, in evergreen forest 

 ^' walking in a long chain, from a hole at the foot of a tree to a 

 *' bush near byj on which were a mass of white aphides. I caught 

 " specimen after specimen, with my fingers, and found that they 

 '' emitted a strong smell of tube-roses, which hung about my fingers 

 ^' for the whole day." 



