wheeler: the ants of borneo. 57 



*28. PoNERA GLEADOWi Forel. 



PoneragleadotviForel, in Emery, Mem. R. acoad. sci. Bologna, 1896, 1895-1896, 

 ser. 5, 5, p. 292 7iota § ; Emery, ibid., p. 297, fig. 17a, b, c; Bingham, 

 Fauna Brit. India. H3Tnenop., 1903,2, p. 91; Emery, Gen. Ins. Poner- 

 inae, 1911, p. 91. 



Type-localiiy: Poona, India (Wrougliton). 



Two workers from Sarawak (H. W. Smith) agree very closely with 

 a typical specimen from Orissa received from Professor Forel. The 

 species has a wide distribution, occurring as far north and west as 

 Algeria. 



*29a. PoNERA coNFiNis Roger var. javana Forel. 



Ponera confinis var. javana Forel, Mitth. Naturh. mus. Hamburg, 1905, 22, 

 p. 6, y 9 ; Emery, Gen. Ins. Ponerinae, 1911, p. 90, ^ 9 . 



Type-locality: Buitenzorg, Java (K. Kraepelin). 



Seven workers and two females from Kuching (John Hewitt) agree 

 well with a specimen from Singapore given me by Forel, with the 

 description of specimens from Buitenzorg and with a worker taken 

 by H. W. Smith at Surubaya, Java. 



30. Leptogenys (Lobopelta) chalybea Emery. 



Lobopelta iridescens Mayr, Ann. Mus. civ. Geneva, 1872, 2, p. 150, ^ ; Mayr, 



Verb. Zool. bot. gesellsch. Wien, 1878, 28, p. 665, ^ {nee Smith). 

 Lobopelta chalybea Emery, Ann. Mus. civ. Geneva, 1887, ser. 2, 5, p. 432, ^ . 

 Leptogenys (Lobopelta) chalybea Emery, Gen. Ins. Ponerinae, 1911, p. 102, ^ . 



Type-locality: Sarawak, Borneo (Doria and Beccari). 

 Four workers from Kuching (John Hewitt). 



31. Leptogenys (Lobopelta) iridescens (Smith). 



Ponera iridescens Smith, Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc. London. Zool., 1857, 2, p. 66, U . 

 Lobopelta iridescens Emery, Ann. Mus. civ. Geneva, 1887, ser. 2, 5, p. 431, § . 

 Leptogenys (Lobopelta) iridescens Emery, Gen. Ins. Ponerinae, 1911, p. 104, ^ . 



Type-locality: Sarawak, Borneo (A. R. Wallace). 



Sarawak (Doria and Beccari, Haviland). 



A dozen workers from Kuching (H. W. Smith). 



