24iS A. Forel — Indian Ants of the Indian Museum^ Calcutta. [No. 3, 



Var. punctata n., ^ media-major. Length 6*3 millims. Head smooth 

 and shining with very scattered, but distinct and moderately coarse 

 puncture, besides with some divergent effaced striee. Pronotum and 

 mesonotum rugose. Two elongate tubercles on the metanotum. Dark 

 reddish brown. Abdomen dark chestnut-brown. In other respects like 

 the other varieties. Kashmir. 



The A. harhara is a very variable Mediterranean species and has 

 hitherto been found as far as Asia Minor and Turkestan, but not in India. 



Genus Pheidole. 



27. P. INDICA, Mayr, ? . Also from Port Canning, near Calcutta. 



Genus Cremastogaster. 

 Lund, Ann. d. So. nat. 1881, 132, =■ Acrocoelia, Mayr, Yerh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, 1852. 



28. C. SUBNUDA, Mayr (Verh. k. k. z.-b. Ges. Wien, 4 Dec. 1878), 

 $ variety. Differs from Mayr's description only in having the mandi- 

 bles entirely striated, the funiculi not clearer than the rest of the antenna, 

 the second node of the petiole entirely smooth, the spines of the metano- 

 tum slightly concave exteriorly, and in being longer (4 millim.) . Sibsagar, 



29. C. FLAVA, n. sp., $. Length 4" 2 — 5 millims. Entirely of a 

 pale yellow ; only the posterior half of the abdomen with a brownish 

 tinge. Slender ; legs and antennae rather long. Resembles a little the 

 C. rogenhoferij Mayr. The club of the antenna 3-jointed. Mandibles 

 closely striated. Head and thorax opaque. Head entirely longitudinally 

 striated ; its sides and posterior angles have besides a regularly spaced 

 and rather coarse puncture. The striae diverge towards the occiput, 

 which has also sinuous, more or less transverse striae. 



Thorax rather narrow. Pronotum moderately flattened above, with 

 the sides a little prominent. Mesonotum with two lateral carinae, between 

 which it is concave, a little enlarged in front, rounded at its anterior 

 margin. Spines of the metanotum little divergent, moderately convex 

 exteriorly, a little shorter than the interval between their bases. The 

 declivous surface of the metanotum smooth, shining, much longer than 

 the basal one. The rest of the thorax longitudinally rugose and 

 delicately reticulate- punctate between the wrinkles. 



The first node of the petiole viewed from above, as in G. rogen- 

 hoferi, flattened, broad, with a semicircular anterior edge, which is ter- 

 minated by two angles at the middle of the sides. From these angles, 

 each posterior half of the sides is concave and converges strongly towards 

 the posterior edge, where it is terminated by a little protuberance. The 

 posterior edge is cmarginate between these protuberances. The second 



