Volume 2

The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma / edited by W.T. Blanford, A.E. Shipley, assisted by A.K. Marshall. Hymenoptera. Vol.I, Wasps and bees. Vol.II, Ants and cuckoo-wasps / by C.T. Bingham. Vol. III, Ichneumonidae:-I. Ichneumones Deltoidei / by Claude Morley.

Date:
1897-1913
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Credit: The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma / edited by W.T. Blanford, A.E. Shipley, assisted by A.K. Marshall. Hymenoptera. Vol.I, Wasps and bees. Vol.II, Ants and cuckoo-wasps / by C.T. Bingham. Vol. III, Ichneumonidae:-I. Ichneumones Deltoidei / by Claude Morley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    episteruum from the epimeron ; jJ, a portiou of the almost sup- pressed and obsolete metapleui-is. To the mesothorax at the sides above are attached iu the 5 and d (ergatoid forms excepted) the fore wings, and to the sides of the metathorax the hmd wmgs; the nem^tion of the wings is less complete than in most of the Fig. yii. Details,—thorax and legs of $ of the Dolichoderiute. Fig. viii. Details,—thorax and legs of $ of the Dorylinw. Aculeata. In the fore wing :—1, radial; 2, costal; G, medial; and 7 & S, two submedial cells, are always complete ; the othera are variable and may or may not be present, complete or incom- plete. Three pairs of legs are present in all the sexes, the parts of which as shown are e, e, coxee ; /, /, trochanters, single-jointed ; (/, fj, femora; 7t, 7«, tibiae ; i, i, tibial calcaria, which may or may not be present on all the legs, are often double, and may be pectinate or simple; h, h, tarsi with 5 joints, the apical joint armed with two claws, which may be pectinate, dentate, or simple. The abdomen in the 2 and ^ is composed of 6, in the J of 7 visible segments, and is, like the rest of the parts in ants, very variable, generally more massive and comparatively longer in the 2 > smaller and more slender in the tS than in the ^ . Pigs, ix-xiii show some of the forms obtaining in the various subfamilies ; tlio