FoEEL. — On a New Genus of Formicidoe. 303 



Fig. 51. Maoriana aorangi, Sut., jaw. 



Fig. 52. „ „ „ teeth, x 720. 



Fig. 53. Pupa neozclanica, Pf., jaw. 



Fig. 54. „ „ „ teeth, x 720. 



Fig. 55. LimncBa alfredi, Sut., jaw. 



Fig. 56. „ „ „ teeth, x 480, 



Fig. 57. Ecalia cgea, Gray, teeth, x 480. 



Fig. 58. Hydrocena pitrchasi, Fi., teeth, x 720. 



Fig. H.P. „ „ „ operculum. 



Fig. H.C. „ cattarocnsis, Pf., 



Art. XXIV. — Description of a Neio Genus of the Family 



Form laid ce.-'- 



By Aug. Fokel, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry in the Uni- 

 versity of Zurich, Switzerland. 



Communicated by H. Suter. 



\Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 4th November, 



1891.] 



Gen. HuBERiA, n. gen. 



^ . Antennse of 11 joints ; the joints 2 to 6 of the funicule 

 short, becoming more and more stout and rounded ; chib 

 rather stout, consisting of four joints. Maxillary palpi five- 

 joiiited ; labial palpi three-jointed. Mandibles triangular, 

 with a large terminal margin, which is armed with two rather 

 strong denticles anteriorly and about sev-en small ones pos- 

 teriorly. Epistome with a longitudinal channel in the middle, 

 without spines or denticles, prolonged between the joints of 

 the antennae ; its posterior margin is neither elevated nor dis- 

 torted. Frontal area distinct, somewhat rounded posteriorly, 

 as in the genus Aphcenog aster. Frontal channel distinct. 

 Frontal spines and eyes of ordinary shape. No ocelli. Thorax 

 strongly excavated between the mesonotum and metauotum ; 

 the pronotum and the mesonotum are hardly more elevated 

 than the metanotum. The pro-mesonotal suture slightly im- 

 pressed. Metanotum convex, with two spines. The first 

 node of the pedicle rather prolonged petiolate anteriorly. Ab- 

 domen not truncate. 



5 . Characters of the ^ . The mesonotum nearly attains 

 the anterior limit of the thorax. The mandibles have about 

 nine small denticles behind the two anterior teeth. Meta- 

 notum bidentate. The wings with one small cubital cell only, 

 one great discoidal cell, and one radial cell, which is slightly 



* Comptes-rendus de la Societo PJntomologique de Belgique, seauce 

 du 7 Juin, 1890. Translated from the French by H. Suter, Christchurch. 



