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This is a most variable species, shading away into other species in 

 all directions. 



178. Ph. indica (Mayr) ; raoe rothschana (Forel MS.). 

 Poona Districts. 



This form is quite common East of Poona. 



179. Fh. jucunda-indica. 



Orissa ..Jas. Taylor. 



180. Ph. jucunda (Forel) . 



Poona Districts * (A variety). 



Dharmsala, Punjab Major Sage (variety). 



Another variable species. 



181. Ph. multidens (Forel MS.). 

 Poona Districts. 



I took it only once, on the Ghats, at a meat bait. 



182. Ph. parm (Mayr). 



Dharmsala, Punjab Major Sage (variety). 



Calcutta (jt. A. J, Rothney. 



183. Ph. parva (Mayr) ; race dekhanika (Forel MS.). 



Poona Districts. 

 This would seem to be the local form of P. parva, 



184. Ph. ghatika (Forel MS.). 

 Poona Districts. 



I have taken it only on the Ghats. On one occasion I found a 

 commimity of P. ghatika working very hard bringing out corpses from 

 the nest ; there was a considerable heap of them already, and all were 

 unmutilated and limp ; there must, apparently, have been some ter- 

 rible epidemic in the nest. A neighbouring community of Monomo~ 

 rium mayri were at work removing the corpses to their own nest, and 

 were allowed to do so unmolested by P. ghatika. Was P. ghatika too 

 dispirited to resent this desecration of her dead ? Or was she only 

 too glad to get them removed ? 



185. Ph. wood-masoni (Forel). 

 Poona Districts. 



Coonoor R. W. Daly. 



This is a dreadfully cretin form, more like a termite than a decent 

 Pheidole, 



