1 43 ANTS. 



Tribe 10. CATATI.AI n. 



Paleotropical. \Yorker and female with deep antennal scrobes mi 

 the sides of the head but formed by the true frontal carime only in 

 front; further back they are bounded by special prolongations. Male 

 verv similar to the female. Antennae in both sexes n -jointed. 



Cataulacus (with the subgen. Latan/actis and Otomyrmex}. 



Subfamily IV. DOLICHODERh\\E Forel. 



Gizzard with a 4-sepaled, reflected calyx, completely enclosed within 

 the crop, or without a calyx. Pedicel i-jointed. Poison gland of 

 worker and female without pulvinus, invaginating the cuticle of the 

 vesicle, becoming enclosed within this organ and terminating in a 

 knob. Tube of gland straight throughout, and furnished with lateral 



FIG. 85. Worker of Hemioptica sciss'i of Ceylon. (Bingham.) 



tubules for each cell. Poison vesicle variable in form, usually small, 

 sometimes like the gland itself, highly vestigial. Sting very small ( ex- 

 cept in Aneuretits), vestigial, but not transformed into an organ to sup- 

 port the orifice of the vesicle. Cloacal orifice large, forming a non- 

 ciliated, transverse slit, usually ventral to the tip of the gaster. Pygi- 

 dium commonly vertical or oblique antero-posteriorly and concealed 

 under the fourth gastric segment. Antenna? 12-jointed. Anal glands 

 almost always present and secreting an aromatic product of charac- 

 teristic odor (Tapinoma odor). Pupae naked, never enclosed in 

 cocoons. 



Cosmopolitan. 



Aneuretus (Fig. 140), Dolichoderus (with subgen. Dolicho- 

 derns (Fig. 79), Hypoclinca and Monads], Lcptomynncx, 

 Liometopum (Fig 1 . 80), Aztcca, Scinoniits, Tapinouia (with 

 the subgen. Tapinoma, Ecphorclla and Doleromyrma), 

 Turneria, Tcchnomyrmc.r, Dorymynnc.r, Fore/ins, Irido- 

 inynnc.r (Fig. 86), Engramma, Bothriomyrmex, Lincpi- 

 theina. 



