228 WHEELER. 



on the body and appendages are longer, more abundant and more 

 bristly, even on the antennal funiculi. The appressed hairs on the 

 gaster are also longer and more numerous. 



Larva. Long and slender, cylindrical and not enlarged at the 

 posterior end, with eleven distinct postcephalic segments, all uni- 

 formly clothed with short, erect, two-branched hairs. Head small, 

 as broad as long, with vestigial antennfe and long falcate mandibles, 

 which have finely serrate internal borders. There are few hairs on 

 the head and these are simple, with the exception of a pair near the 

 occipital border, which are two-branches like those on the body. The 

 color of the larva is dull white. 



Queensland: Mackay, t;y'P6-locality (Turner). 



New South Wales: Hornsby (Wheeler); Sydney, Wentworth Falls 

 and Leura, Blue Mts. (W. INI. Mann). 



South Australia: Lucindale (Feuerheerdt). 



I have examined a cotype of stemheili given me by Prof. Forel. 

 It is indistinguishable from the females in the colonies I have seen 

 from New South Whales and South Australia, the workers of which 

 are evidently referable to Forel's falla.v. The nests are found in sand 

 under logs and stones. 



2. Eusphinctus (Eusphinctus) steinheili var. hedwigae Forel. 



Sphindomyrmex {Eusphinctus) fallax subsp. hedicigce Forel, Rev. 

 Suisse Zool. 18, 1910, p. 21 ^ 9 ; Emery, Gen. Insect. Fasc. 118, 

 1911, p. 7; Boll. Lab. Zool. Gen. Agrar. 8, 1914, p. 179. 



Sphincloviyrmcx hednigoe (sic!) Froggatt, Agric. Gaz. N. S. W., 

 1905, p. 15. 



New South Wales: Walcha, type locality (W. W. Froggatt). 



South Australia: Mt. Lofty (Silvestri ; A.M.Lea); Adelaide (Mus. 

 S. Austr.). 



I am convinced from examination of a cotype worker and female 

 anfl of many specimens of both phases from the two localities in South 

 Australia that this is merely a variety of steinheili. The postpetiole 

 has the sides more rounded in the worker than in the typical form of 

 the species, but both this character and the width of the gastric seg- 

 ments of the two forms are somewhat variable, so that often they can 

 be distinguished only by the coloration, hcdioigae having the body 

 more uniformlv reddish. 



