178 A. Forel — Indian Ants of the Indian Museum, GalciUta. [No. 3, 



V. Subfamily Myrmicidae. 



Smitli, Cat. Brit. Hym. 1851. 



Genus SiMA. 



Koger, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 1863 ■■= Eciton Jerdon, nee Latreille. 



15. SiMA KUFO-NIGRA, Jerdou (Madras Journ. Lit. & Sc. 1851, 

 Eciton) y 5 • 



16. SiMA COMPRESSA, Roger (Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 1863?), 5 . 



The only specimen from Calcutta is very large (7. 5 millims.) The 

 specimens which were described by Roger (1. c.) and Mayr (Tijdschr. voor 

 Eutomol. 1867) measured only 4—5 millims. Therefore the identity of 

 our specimen with S. compressa does not seem to me to be perfectly 

 sure, though the other characters agree with the description. 



Genus Mtrmicaria. 

 Saunders, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1841-43 = Heptacondijlus and Physatta, Smith. 



17. Myrmicaria subcarinata, Smith (Cat. Brit; Mus. 1858, Hejpta* 

 candy lus), g . 



Genus Holcomtrmex. 

 Mayr, Yerh. k. k. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1878. 



18. Holcomtrmex scabriceps, Mayr (Verh. k. k. zool.-bot. Ges. 

 Wien 1878), g major and g minor. 



Genus Pheidole. 

 Westwood, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist, vi, 1841 = Ocodoma, Jerdon, 1. o. 



19. Pheidole indica, Mayr (Yerh. k. k. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 1878), 

 g, i;, and ?. 



The specimens are smaller than Mayr's. I have submitted this 

 ant to Prof. Mayr, who has pronounced it to be his P. indica; but 

 joints 3 — 4 of the antennae are longer than broad in the soldier, as 

 long as broad in the female. 



i; . Length : 4 — 5 millims. A curved striation at the posterior 

 angles of the head. Head shining between the stri^. 



i;^ . Length ; 2. 5—2. 8 millims. 



? . Length : 7 — 7.5 millims. Head narrower than the thorax. 



20. Pheidole latinoda, Roger (Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 1863), 2/, 5?, 

 and ?) var. major. 



The specimens are larger than Roger's and Mayr's. This species 

 has hitherto only been found in India, and the $ is still unknown. 



11. Length: 5.4 — 6. 2 millims. Head coarsely striate-rugose, pos- 

 teriorly coarsely rugose-reticulated. The ground of the reticulations 

 is moderately shining and sometimes contains secondary rugosities. Less 

 shining than P. indica ; the clypeus carinate (in P. indica not carinate) ; 



