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from behind, is rounded and entire. Legs long and slender. Opaque; 

 surface of body peculiarly shagreened so that it has a silky luster irre- 

 spective of the pubescence. Mandibles very finely striated and with 

 small, scattered, indistinct punctures. 



Hairs glistening white, short, blunt, erect, abundant, covering the 

 whole body, except the antennae and flexor surfaces of the legs. Pu- 

 bescence very dilute and delicate, more distinct on the gaster than on 

 the head and thorax. 



Ferruginous brown ; gaster dark brown ; clypeus, cheeks, mandibles, 

 tarsi, and articulations of legs paler, more yellowish red. 



Female. Length 9 mm. 



Similar to the worker in color and sculpture. Head somewhat 

 broader than the thorax; clypeus feebly carinate, its anterior border 

 more distinctly sinuate than in the worker. Thorax low, flat, with 

 rounded epinotum. Superior border of petiole sharper than in the 

 worker, but much blunter than in the female of fusca. 



Male (?) Length 7-7.5 mm.; fore wing 5.5 mm. 



Black; opaque throughout; tips of mandibles and the genitalia 

 red, the stipes of the latter partly brown. Pubescence on the gaster 

 long, whitish, not very dense; erect hairs very short. Head short and 

 broad. Mandibles opaque; anterior border of clypeus rounded. 

 Thorax depressed. Petiole thick, cuneate, its upper border not ex- 

 cised. Wings nearly colorless, with dark brown veins and stigma. 



Iberian Peninsula and Southern France (Eastern Pyrenees). 



The worker of this species is easily distinguished by its peculiar 

 sculpture and, as Emery has pointed out, by the singular structure 

 of the thorax in the mesoepinotal region. I have redescribed the 

 worker from two specimens collected by Prof. G. Strobl at Algeciras 

 in Andalusia. The descriptions of the female and supposed male are 

 taken from Emery. 



115. F. suBPOLiTA Mayr. 



F. fusca var. subpolita Mayr, Verh. Zool. hot. ver. Wien, 1886, 36, p. 426, ^ 9 . 



F. fusca subsp. subpolita Emery, Zool. jahrb. Syst., 1893, 7, p. 661, S 9 . 



F. gagates var. subpolita Dalla Torre, Catalog. Hymen., 1893, 7, p. 199 (in 



part) . 

 F. rufiventris Emery, Zool. jahrb. Syst., 1893, 7, p. 665, pi. 22, fig. 11, d". 

 F.flammiventris, nom. nov. Wheeler, Psyche, 1912, 19, p. 90, cf. 



Worker. Length 3-6 mm. 



Distinctly dimorphic, the largest workers having the head large, 

 rectangular, as broad as long and only slightly narrower in front than 



