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Warrior nearly | inch long, head very large, nearly smoothed, 

 slightly striated ; jaws lancet, shaped, entire ; eyes small, somewhat 

 advanced, antennae short, otherwise as in the Worker. 



I procured this Ant in the Wynaad where it is not uncommon. 

 The difference between the Worker and the Warrior is greater than 

 in any other Indian species. 



11. Ocodoma Affinis, N. S. 



Worker Jth of an inch long ; head nearly square, almost smooth, 

 with only a few striae ; eyes nearly medial, smallish ; jaws triangu- 

 lar, with two strong teeth at the external angle of the jaw, and two 

 smaller at the internal angle ; thorax very slightly grooved, with 

 two curved spines posteriorly, first abdominal pedicle very narrow, 

 long, conic posteriorly, not much raised ; second rounded, of equal 

 height, broader ; head, legs and thorax rufous ; abdomen dusky. 



Warrior nearly 7-16th of an inch long ; head and jaws striated, 

 eyes very minute, head notched anteriorly ; antennae inverted in a 

 deep groove ; metathorax elevated ; no palpi apparently. 



This Ant is very common in Malabar ; is nearly allied to, but 

 differs from, 0. Diversa in the toothed jaws of the Warrior, &c. &c. 



12. Ocodoma Minor, N. S. 



Worker, length about 5-48th of an inch, entirely rufous, head 

 oblong, smooth ; eyes small ; jaws long, somewhat triangular, 

 toothed, last tooth prolonged ; thorax slightly grooved, with two 

 small spines in its posterior extremity ; abdominal pedicles slightly 

 raised, first long, conic ; second rounded ; both narrow above. 



Female 5-8th of an inch long, head nearly square, slightly notch- 

 ed behind, three ocelli on top of head ; eyes large medial, head 

 striated with a hollow for the base of the antennae ; jaws triangu- 

 lar, bluntly toothed at the two angles ; antennae short ; thorax much 

 raised anteriorly, and with two small posterior spines ; abdomen 

 long, oval, large. 



I, on one occasion, only, found a single individual which I pre- 

 sume to be the female (which had lost her wings) under a stone 

 in my garden at Tellicherry, surrounded by numerous workers who 



