264 WHEELER. 



than the remaining segments together, distinctly flattened dorso- 

 ventrally and with feebly convex sides. Pygidium small, truncated, 

 entire, its border spinulose. Legs rather long. 



Shining; mandibles coarsely punctate; head, thorax, petiole and 

 postpetiole covered with large, sparse, piligerous punctures; gaster 

 somewhat more finely and densely punctate. 



Erect hairs yellow, rather abundant, moderately long, and of 

 uneven length, covering the body and appendages, longest on the tip 

 of the gaster. Pubescence dilute, conspicuous only on the gaster, 

 legs and scapes. 



Yellowish red; legs, scapes and terminal antenna! joint paler; 

 mandibles, frontal carinse and anterior border of cheeks brownish. 



Queensland: Mackay, type-locality (Turner); Bribie Island, near 

 Brisbane (H. Hacker). 



Northern Territory: Darwin (G. F. Hill). 



Redescribed from a couple of cotypes received from Prof. Forel. Mr. 

 Henry Tryon informs me that this ant is not uncommon in some parts 

 of Queensland but is easily overlooked because it leads a hypogjeic life. 



34. Cerapachys (Syscia) australis var. edentata Forel. 



Syscia australis var. edentata Forel, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 44, 1900, 

 p. 69, y. 



Syscia australis var. endentata (sic !) Froggatt, Agric. Gaz. N. S. W., 

 1905, p. 14, y . 



Cerapachys (Syscia) australis var. cdentula (sic!) Emery, Gen. 

 Insect. Ease. 118, 1911, p. 10, g . 



Queensland : Mackay, tvpe-locality (Turner) ; Brisbane (H. 

 Tryon). 



This form differs from the typical australis in its deeper, more 

 reddish coloration, somewhat feebler and sparser puncturation, some- 

 what more transverse first to seventh funicular joints and especially 

 in lacking teeth on the apical and basal borders of the mandibles. 



Genus Lioponera Mayr. 

 35. Lioponera australis Forel. 



Lioponera longitarsis Mayr var. australis Forel, Ann. Soc. Ent. 

 Belg. 39, 1895, p. 422, ^ ; Froggatt, Agric. Gaz. N. S. W., 1905, p. 8; 

 Emery, Gen. Insect. Ease. 118, 1911, p. 12. 



Queensland: Mackay (Turner). 



