wheeler: ants collected in TRINIDAD. 



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arching broad scrobes for the antennae dorsal to the eyes, which are 

 small but otherwise well developed. Ocelli absent. There is a short, 

 sharp longitudinal carina ventral to the insertion of each antenna and a 

 small acute tooth at each lateral corner of the gula near the lateral 

 insertion of the mandible. Ocelli absent. Frontal area represented 

 by a smooth, transverse region in the sculpture of the head; frontal 

 groove represented by a raised line extending back to the vertex. 

 Antennae, robust, 6-jointed. Thorax, petiole, postpetiole, and gaster 

 much as in Strumigenys. Spongiform appendages well developed on 

 the petiole, postpetiole, and base of gaster. Head coarsely sculptured. 

 Squamiform or clavate hairs absent, but both the body and appendages 

 covered with long, soft, dense, pointed hairs. 



45. Codiomyrmex thaxteri, sp. nov. (Fig. 1). 



Worker. Length nearly 2 mm. 



Mandibles very convex dorsally and laterally, somewhat narrowed 



Fig. 1. Codiomyrmex thaxteri, sp. nov. Body of worker in profile; head of same 

 from above. 



at their insertions, their straight apical margins furnished with numer- 

 ous, crowded, acute, and equal teeth. Head subtriangular, a little 



