66 bulletin: museum ok (ompahativk zoology, 



Ofcophthora fnutilla llcer, Hausamoiso Madeiras, 18.'i2, p. If), Ql S 9 6^, pi. 1, 



fig. l-^l. 

 Myrinicaf laa-igala Smitli, 'I'raiis. Knt. soc. London, 1855, scr. 2, 3, p. 130, S , 



pi. 9, fig. 7, S. 

 Myrmica triuodis Mayr. \'oili. Zool. bot. gesellsch. Wicn, 1855, 6, p. 414, 



nota, y . 

 Myrmicd (Pheidole) laevigata Smith, Cat. Hrit. fossor. Hymenop., 1858, p. 35, 



225, S . 

 Pheidole fntsilla Smith, Cat. Hymonop. Brit, nnis., 1858, 6, p. 173, pi. 9, fig. 



18-20. 

 Pheidole jatius Smith, ibid., p. 175, 9 , pi. 9, fig. 13-17. 

 Pheidole vicgacephala Kogcr, Verzeich. formicid., 1863, p. 30; Dalla Torre, 



Cat. Hymenop., 1S93, 7, p. 92. 



Type-locality: Mauritius (Coll. Bosc). 



Numerous soldiers and workers from Kuching (John Hewitt and 

 H. W. Smith). 



54. Pheidole javana Mayr. 



Pheidole javana Mayr, Tijdschr. ent., 1867, 10, p. 98, 01 ^ . 



Type-locality: Ja\a. 



Sarawak (Doria and Beccari; Bedot and Pictet); Kapouas Basin 

 (Chaper). 



Two soldiers and several workers from Kuching (John Hewitt) and 

 Sarawak (H. \V. Smith). 



*55. Pheidole bugi, sp. nov. 



Soldier. Length 2 mm. 



Head large, subrect angular, longer than broad, with nearly straight sub- 

 parallel sides, slightly narrowed at the posterior corners, with deeply and 

 angularly excised occipital border, distinctly depressed in the occipital region 

 and with distinct occipital groove. Eyes small, with angular inferior orbits, 

 situated at the anterior fourth of the head. Mandibles large, convex, with 

 broad apical margins, furnished at their tips with a pair of large, blunt teeth. 

 Clypeus flattened, or slightly concave in the middle, ecarinate, its anterior 

 border deeply notched. Frontal area distinct, semicircular, impressed. 

 Frontal carinac rather short, diverging behind and bordering flattened, 

 indistinct scrobe-like areas. Antennae short and slender, the scapes reaching 

 the lateral borders of the head a little behind the eyes and in front of the middle; 



