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and join the short frontal furrow. Clypeus very short, vertical, with 

 straight anterior border. Antennte moderately thick; scapes a little 

 more than half as long as the head, gradually incrassated towards 

 their tips; first funicular joint nearly as long as broad, joints 2-9 

 broader than long, tenth joint as long as broad, terminal joint not 

 longer than the two preceding joints together. Thorax rather robust, 

 twice as long as broad, a little broader through the epinotum than 

 through the pronotum, distinctly narrowed in the mesonotal region. 

 Anterior border of pronotum not marginate; sides of dorsum, bound- 

 ary between the epinotal base and declivity and the sides of the latter 

 strongly marginate. In profile the dorsum is feebly convex, the epi- 

 notal declivity straight, with a small tooth above on each side. Petiole 

 rectangular, a little broader than long, its sides straight, strongly 

 marginate, produced behind as a pair of flat, acute teeth, its anterior 

 border broadly concave, its anterior corners slightly rounded; in 



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Figure 8. Phyracaces lece sp. nov. Worker, a, dorsal view of body; b, 

 antenna of same. 



profile the dorsal surface is rather convex, its ventral surface without 

 a tooth. Postpetiole rectangular, slightly broader than the petiole 

 and slightly broader than long, its rounded anterior angles alone 

 marginate. First gastric segment distinctly broader than the post- 

 petiole, broader than long. Pygidium broadly concave above, its 

 sides marginate and finely spinulate. Legs rather long; hind coxae 

 with a large, rounded, translucent lamella at the tip on the inner side. 



Smooth and shining, the head and thorax very finely and super- 

 ficially shagreened; mandibles more coarsely shagreened and sparsely 

 punctate. Occipital region artd upper surface of thorax and abdomen 

 with scattered, shallow, piligerous foveolse. 



Hairs pale yellow, suberect, short, sparse and rather bristly, spars- 

 est on the head, scapes and legs. Pubescence pale, dilute, distinct 

 only on the legs. 



