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the pronotum as through the epinotum, with bhint anterior and 

 posterior corners, flattened above and on the sides, which are scarcely 

 sul)mar<;:inate, with sloping, concave, epinotal declivity. Mesoepino- 

 tal suture \ery feebly indicatetl. Pronotum in front, prosterna, sides 

 and upper border of epinotal declivity niarginate. Petiole rounded 

 cuboidal, as long as high, a little broader than long and a little broader 

 behind than in front, its anterior surface flat and marginate on the 

 sides; its \entral surface in front with a large, blunt, compressed 

 tooth. Postpetiole fully If times as broad as long, broader than the 

 petiole, broader behind than in front, with rounded anterior angles, 

 and its ventral portion in front swollen and strongly protuberant. 

 Pygidium flattened above, entire and blunt at the tip, with a row of 



Figure 5. a, Nothosphindus froggaiti Forel, thorax and abdomen of 

 worker, dorsal view; b, head of same. 



spinules along each side. Legs moderatel\' long; hind coxse without 

 lamellate appendage at the tip. 



Shining; mandibles coarsely punctate, striate at the base; head, 

 thorax, petiole and postpetiole covered with scattered foveoloe of 

 \arying size, denser on the head, very sparse in the mid-dorsal line 

 of the thorax and on the petiole and postpetiole; gaster very finely 

 shagreened and sparsely punctate. 



Hairs pale yellow, short, moderately abundant, oblique or sub- 

 appressed, shorter and more appressed on the appendages where they 

 may be described as long; pubescence rather abundant, especially on 

 the tibia:'. 



Brownish red; scapes and legs somewhat paler; mandibles, anterior 

 border of head and incisures of funicular joints blackish. 



New South Wales: Minto, type locality (W. W. Froggatt); Sydney 

 (A. M. Lea). 



