. Hymenoptera ... one common species is often found on trees, and abounds onthe flowers of mango-trees in Burma. A nest at the foot of amango-tree in my compound at Maulmain was to my knowledgecontinuously inhabited by a jjopulous colony of M. hrunnea forsix years; but Mr. liothney bas recorded the existence of a nestin Barrackpore park, which apparently occupied the same site forover twenty years. Kci] to the Speeies. a. Head more or less striate; mandibles finely striate ; pronotiuu anteriorly convex, not raised -V. hriuuicd. p. 118. b. Head and mandibles smooth, not striate ; pro- notum rai
. Hymenoptera ... one common species is often found on trees, and abounds onthe flowers of mango-trees in Burma. A nest at the foot of amango-tree in my compound at Maulmain was to my knowledgecontinuously inhabited by a jjopulous colony of M. hrunnea forsix years; but Mr. liothney bas recorded the existence of a nestin Barrackpore park, which apparently occupied the same site forover twenty years. Kci] to the Speeies. a. Head more or less striate; mandibles finely striate ; pronotiuu anteriorly convex, not raised -V. hriuuicd. p. 118. b. Head and mandibles smooth, not striate ; pro- notum raised in front, laterally tuberciilate above, not convex M. hirmaua, p. 119. 137. Myrmicaiia brunnea, Saunders, Trana. Ent. Soc. iii (1841),p. )7, pi. v, i\<x. -2, J ?Myrmica fodieiis, Jerdon, Madr. Jour. L. S. xvii (1851), p. 115,S $ ; Emery, JJull. Soc. Ent. Ital. xxiii (1891), p. 100. ^. Chestnut-brown, shining; mandibles finely and closely,head and thorax more or less ^\?idely, longitudinally striate; the. Fig. 55.—Myrmicaria brunnea, ^. a. Antenna, h. Tliorax in profile. nodes of the pedicel smooth or only slightly rugulose; abdomenpolished and smooth; pilosity long, abundant, reddish yellow, :mybmicauii. 119 slightly oblique ou the antennse and legs. Foi the rest thecharacters of the genus. $. Resembles the ^ in colour ; the mandibles are more coarselystriate, the clypeus is smooth, the front between the antennae andthe cheeks longitudinally striate, the head posteriorly on the vertexand lateral angles coarsely reticulate. Thorax: the pronotumsomewhat vaguelj and transversely and the mesonotum posteriorlylongitudinally striate ; anteriorly the latter is smooth and pohshed,the scutellum rugose, the meranotuin in-egularly striate rugose,including the basal portion of the nietauotal spines. Pedicel:the nodes rugulose, opaque ; abdomen smooth, pohshed andshining. Wings hyaline ; nervures brownish. d . Light chestnut-yellow, the apical margins of the abdominalsegments more
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