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WHEELER. 



Rich red; mesonotum with three brown blotches. ^Yings whitish 

 hyahne, veins pale yellow, pterostigma dark brown, very conspicu- 

 ous. 



Described from a single specimen taken by Miss F. May at MuUewa, 

 West Australia (Museum of South Australia). 



This species is readily- distinguished from rugulinodis by its larger 

 size, more robust stature, smaller eyes and ocelli, shorter funicular 

 joints, shorter petiole, more shining postpetiole, etc. It may be the 

 hitherto unknown male of Ph. singularis or of an allied species. 



26. Phyracaces ficosus sp. nov. 



(Fig. 12). 



Worker. Length 5.5-6 mm. 



Head slightly longer than broad, distinctly broader behind than in 

 front, convex above and on the sides, with excised posterior border 



CX3 



Figure 12. Phyracaces ficosus sp. nov. Worker, a, dorsal view of body, 

 6, antenna of same. 



and rather acute inferoposterior corners. Eyes rather large, feebly 

 convex, at the middle of the sides of the head; ocelli absent. Man- 

 dibles triangular, deflected, with finely denticulate apical border 

 passing through a rounded angle into the basal border; external 

 border rather straight. Clypeus very short, vertical. Frontal ca- 

 rinse large, erect, rounded, not truncated at their confluence behind. 

 Carina of cheeks short, with a prominent blunt tooth. Postocular 

 carina absent. Occipital border of head strongly marginate, the 

 margination continued forward on each side of the gula to the level 

 of the middle of the eyes. An tenure stout; scapes a little less than 

 half as long as the head, gradually incrassated towards their tips; 

 none of the funicular joints, except the ultimate and penultimate, 

 longer than broad, the ultimate tapering and pointed, not longer 



