66 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1892. 



mucli trouble in securing this specimen, and, when I succeeded, I 

 found she could sting better than she could jump. 

 93. S. cruentatus (Smith). 

 Poona Ghats. 



Canara H. G. Palliser. 



Orissa Jas. Taylor. 



In each case a single specimen only was taken. There is also a 

 specimen in the Society's Collection labelled Matheran. E. cruentatus 

 is nearly an inch long with very long legs. 



Gen. 23. Lobopblta (Mayr). 

 Tarsal claws pectinate. 



94. L, distinguenda (Emery). 

 Poona Districts. 



Kanara E . H . Aitken . 



Travancore H. S. Ferguson. 



Orissa Jas. Taylor. 



Ceylon Major Yerbury. 



Calcutta , G. A. J. Rothney. 



This species is fairly common from Poona westwards to the Ghats. 

 The idea of a disciplined army has been fairly developed in this 

 genus. L. distinguenda may sometimes, it is true, be found loafing 

 about singly, but these individuals are probably only scouts ; 

 ordinarily, she is only met, in the early morning or late in the 

 afternoon, trav^elling in an unbroken column 4 to 6 or 8 abreast, 

 straight, or rather by the easiest road, to the scene of operations. 

 This is usually a colony of white ants whose galleries have been 

 broken open by the hoof of a passing beast, or some similar accident- 

 Arrived at destination, each ^ seizes her termite prey, tucks it under 

 her thorax in the orthodox ponerine fashion, and the column then 

 returns (but marching ' at ease ' and much less regularly than on 

 the oatward journey) to the nest. I have never succeeded in 

 finding a nest ; on one occasion I tracked a column for more than 50 

 paces, only to lose it in a patch of prickly pear. I do not think that 

 L. distinguenda, any more than any other ant, ever has the inspiration 

 to open a termite gallery for herself; on the occasion mentioned 

 above, the column passed close to several^ and even over one colony - 

 of white ants before reaching its destination j I believe, however, I 



