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28. Phyracaces turneri Forel. 



(Fig. 14.) 



Cerapachys (Phyracaces) turneri Forel, Rev. Suisse Zool. 10, 1902, 

 p. 405, S 9 ; Ark. f. Zool. 9, 1915, p. 18, y . 



Cerapachys turneri Froggatt, Agric. Gaz. N. S. W., 1905, p. 15. 



Phyracaces turneri Emery, Gen. Insect. Fasc. 118, 1911, p. 11. 



Worker. Length 3.5-4 mm. 



Head longer than broad, a little narrower in front than behind, 

 truncated and slightly constricted in the occipital region, convex 

 above, with acute inferoposterior corners, rather deeply excised 

 occipital border and moderately large, convex eyes, placed near the 

 middle of the sides. Ocelli absent. Carina of the cheeks with a 

 prominent tooth or angle. Postocular carina absent; occipital bor- 



FiGURE 14. Phyracaces turneri Forel. Worker, a, dorsal view of body, 



6, antenna of same. 



der of head strongly marginate, the margination surrounding the 

 posterior angles and running forward on each side of the gula to a 

 level with the posterior orbits. Clypeus short and vertical. Frontal 

 carinas erect, rounded, abruptly truncated behind where they are very 

 close together. Antennae rather robust; scapes longer than half the 

 head, rapidly enlarging towards their tips; funicular joints 1-9 as 

 long as broad, tenth joint longer than broad, terminal joint tapering, 

 pointed, a little longer than the two preceding joints together. Thorax 

 rectangular, scarcely more than 1| times as long as broad, robust, 

 scarcely narrowed in the micfdle, evenly convex above in profile, with 

 straight, vertical epinotal declivity; anterior and lateral borders, 

 boundary between the epinotal base and declivity and sides of the 

 latter sharply marginate, anterior pronotal angles and corners of 

 epinotum acutely dentate. Petiole a little broader than the epinotum, 

 rectangular, broader than long, a little broader behind than in front, 



