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mai'gination. Petiole as long as broad, rounded-cuboidal, slightly 

 broader behind than in front, distinctly narrower than the epinotum, 

 in profile higher than long, rounded above, with vertical, truncated 

 anterior and posterior surfaces and a powerful triangular tooth at 

 the antero ventral end. Postpetiole broader than the petiole, a little 

 broader behind than in front, with rectangular anterior corners, con- 

 vex dorsal surface and its anterior ventral portion rounded and 

 strongly protuberant. Gastric segments 1-3 broader than long, 

 separated, by very deep and broad constrictions. Pygidium trape- 



FiGURE 4. Zasphinctiis turneri Forel. Worker. 



zoidal, flattened or slightly concave above, submarginate on the sides 

 and rather deeply notched at the tip, the sides and notch fringed with 

 conspicuous spinules. Sting robust, curved. Legs rather long, pos- 

 terior coxre without lamellate appendages. 



Opaque; mandibles shining, coarsely punctate; head and thorax 

 covered with round foveolse, varying in size, their bottoms opaque 

 and finely rugulose. These foveolse are so close together that the 

 spaces between them form coarse but not prominent reticulate rugae. 

 Remainder of body, including the legs and scapes coarsely and densely 



