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far as the stigma, and, including the latter, yellow beyond. 

 Stigma slightly indented at its base by the cubito-discoidal cell, 

 below which point are two testaceous specks, enclosed by a curved 

 water-line ; the outer extremity of the cubito-discoidal cell is 

 unusually l)road, about two-thirds as broad as its lower extremity ; 

 costa of hind wings edged with a blackish line. 



Described from one pair, taken near Flying Eish Cove. 



3. Lobopelta diminuta. (PL XIY, Fig. 6, $.) 



Tonera diminuta, Smith: Cat. Hym. B.M., vi, p. 89, n. 23 (1850). 



i!^ine workers ; north part of island, March, 1898. One 

 female (?) without locality ; described below. 



A common East Indian species, previously recorded from 

 Christmas Island, as well as from Calcutta, Borneo, etc. 



Mr. Lister's collection contained four workers from a nest found 

 near the summit of the island, on October 4, 1887. 



Lolopelta diminuta, 9 (?). (PL XIY, Fig. 7.) 



Long corp. 6 mm. ; exp. al. 12 mm. 



Dull black, clothed with short grey hairs, especially conspicuous 

 on the abdomen. Antennae dull reddish, clothed with a very fine 

 pile. Mouth-parts, tegulee, and the last two segments and under- 

 surface of the abdomen, and a narrow border to the segments ; the 

 trochanters, base and tip of femora, and the tibise and tarsi rufous ; 

 the hind tibiae brown in the middle. Front coxae much thickened, 

 front tibiae cultrate, with a very large oblique terminal spine. 

 I'etiole large, erect, sloping in front, and truncated behind. Wings 

 fusco -hyaline, with fuscous nervures ; stigma blackish; neuration 

 nearly that of Ponera. 



4. Camponotus melichloros. 



Camponotus melichloros, Kirb. : P.Z.S., 1888, p. 551. 



"Long, Corp. 7-8 ram, 



" AVorker. Structure nearly that of C. ligniperdus, Latr. Thoracic 

 sutures fairly well defined ; node of petiole forming a rounded 

 plate. Smooth and shining, sparingly clothed with erect white 

 hairs ; thorax honey -yellow ; head and tarsi reddish ; flagellum 

 paler ; abdomen black, with pale sutures ; eyes and extreme tips of 

 mandibles black, the latter sexdentate. 



"The following label was attached to the bottle : 'Two forms 

 from same nest in rotten wood, Flying Fish Cove, October 2 ' 



