176 A. Forel — Indian Ants of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. [No. 3, 



XIV. — Indian Ants of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. — By Professor 

 August Forel, Zurich. Communicated by the Natural History 

 Secretary. 



[Received Nov. 13th ;— Eead Dec. 2nd, 1885.] 

 Family FORMICID^. 



I. Subfamily Oamponotidse. 



Forel, Zeitschr. f. wies. Zool. xxx, Suppl. 1878. 



Genus Oamponotus. 



Majr, Europ. Formic. 1861. 



1. Camponotus sylvaticus, Olivier (Encyclop.Meth. Hist. Nat. VI). 



Subspecies G. cognatus, Smith (Cat. Brit. Mus. 1858), 

 var. e, Mayr (Ants of Turkestan coll. b. Fedtscbenko), ^ and <J .* 



The Camponotus sylvaticus is a large species, which is divided into 

 many subspecies and varieties, and which occurs throughout the world. 

 The subspecies cognatus, var. e, inhabits Africa and South Asia. 



2. Camponotus micans, Nylander (Annal. d. Sc. Nat. lY), ^ . 

 This species is found in Europe, Africa, and India. 



3. Camponotus opaciventris, Mayr (Verhandl. k. k. zool.-bot. 

 Ges. Wien, 1878), §. 



Species very closely allied to the C. sericeus, Fabr. 



4. Camponotus irritans, Smith (Catal. Brit. Mus. 1858 ( = Camp. 

 inconspicuuSf Mayr, Ann. Mus. Civ. Geneva, 1872), ^ . 



Genus POLYRHACHIS. 

 Shnckard, Hist, of Insects. 

 6. PoLYRHACHis L^vissiMA, Smith (Catal. Brit. Mus. 1858) ( = Po- 

 lyrhachis glohularia, Mayr, Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 1867), g . 



Genus Prenolepis. 

 Mayr, Enrop. Formic. 3861. 



6. Prenolopis longicornis, Latr. (Hist. Nat. Fourmis, 1802), g . 

 A cosmopolitan species. 



Genus CBcophylla. 

 Smith, Proc. Lin. Soc. Zool. 1860. 



7. (EcoPHYLLA Smaragdina, Fabr. (Spec. Ins. I) ( = Formica vi- 

 rescens, Fabr., Syst. Ent. 392 = Formica lo7igipes, Jerdon, Madras Journal 

 Lit. &Sc. 1851), -5. 



This species is also found of a green colour. 



* 5 is the sign for " worker " ; $ , f or " female " ; (f , for " male " ; and "4 , for " eol- 

 dier." 



