270 
Psyche 
[June 
Protomutilla microsoma sp. nov. 
(Figs. 1-2) 
female : Length 2.6 mm. Body finely and evenly punctate with 
sparse, short, pale pubescence ; black except clypeus, antennal tubercle, 
antenna, mandible, ventral third of pronotum laterally, legs, fifth 
and sixth metasomal segments and apical margins of other metasomal 
segments testaceous, and palpi stramineous. Head almost prognathous, 
1. 1 times as wide and 0.7 times as high as long, 1.1 times as wide 
as mesomoma; sides weakly converging behind eye, about 0.3 times 
length of eye ; ocelli absent ; eye broadly oval, with many short setae ; 
frons evenly swollen, produced between barely differentiated antennal 
tubercles; malar space 0.4 times as long as eye; weak genal carina 
present; clypeus flattened, anteriorly produced with strongly convex 
apical margin; antenna with scape 3.0 times as long as wide, pedicel 
about as long as first flagellar segment which equals second in length, 
flagellum widest at third segment; mandible approximately parallel- 
sided, obliquely tridentate, the apical tooth strongest. Mesosoma 
1.4 times as long (excluding anterior collar) as wide; width at 
humeral angle 0.9 times that at propodeal angle. Pronotum (ex- 
cluding collar) 0.3 times as long as wide; hind margin shallowly 
concave; lateral margins slightly convergent posteriorly; humeral 
angle pronounced. Mesonotum approximately parallel sided, 0.9 times 
as wide as pronotum. Propodeum with lateral margins divergent 
posteriorly, forming a strong dentiform angle on each side; disc and 
declivity barely differentiated. Mesosomal pleura differentiated from 
nota by a longitudinal carina; concave except convex posteriorly 
forming propodeal angle. Legs unmodified ; foretarsus without spines 
(i.e., pecten undeveloped) ; hind coxa with obtuse lamellate tooth 
dorsally ; hind tibia without spines externally, only a very few minute 
spines apically. Metasoma about 1.7 times as long as wide, 1.25 times 
as wide as mesosoma; first tergum 0.4 times as long as wide, about 
as wide as and 0.4 times as long as second ; sixth tergum sparsely 
punctate, without differentiated pygidial area; first sternum with 
single blunt anteriorly-directed midventral tooth. 
male: Unknown. 
holotype: ?, [India, Orissa Prov.], Nilgiri Hills, 3500 ft. 
(H. L. Andrewes) ; in Hope Department, University Museum, 
Oxford, England. (No date of collection given.) The specimen 
is unfortunately damaged, and lacks the apical three segments of 
the left foretarsus, the left mid- and hind and right mid-tibiae and 
tarsi; the left antenna is glued to the card bearing the “minuten” 
