HYMENOPTERA, 
Westw., attacks plants, eating them below or at the level of the soil. 
The workers have been observed to attack the workers of Pheidole indica 
and carry them off to their nest, where they were killed and cut into 
pieces. The males come to light and they are common towards the end 
of the cold weather in late February. Mnictus is a hunting ant. (Jo. 
Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc., VII, p. 177.) 
Ponerince — A constriction between the two basal abdominal seg¬ 
ments ; sting powerful, exserted. 
Lobopelta is said to make a sound ; it feeds on termites. Rothney 
remarks of L. diminuta, Sm., that it marches in two long lines in files 
of two. Diacamma vagans, Sm., was found to be common at Barrack- 
pore by Rothney, nesting under stones or brick-work; the sting is said 
to be “pungent.” G. R. Dutt has observed it nesting in soft soil at 
the base of a big tree in Pusa ; outside the nest were several heads of 
workers of Camponotus compressus. 
Myrmicince. —The pedicel two-join ted in all the forms. Pupse not 
in cocoons. 
Myrmicaria nests at the foot of trees with a kind of embankment 
round it. Cremastogaster is a tree ant, making globular nests of papery 
Fig. 132. —Cremastog aster dohrni; nest and 
WORKER. [I.M.N.J 
