546 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. 



Worker. Length 5.5 mm. 



Head longer than broad, much rounded behind. Clypeus carinate, 

 its anterior border faintly emarginate in the middle. Frontal carinae 

 subparallel and nearly straight. Petiole thick, with blunt, rounded 

 superior border. 



Slightly lustrous ; head longitudinally, thorax in part transversely, 

 finely, and sharply striolate; mandibles striatopunctate, gaster deli- 

 cately transversely striolate. 



Hairs suberect, moderately abundant ; scapes and tibiae with short, 

 whitish, suberect hairs; pubescence very sparse. 



Black; mandibles, antennae, and legs brown. 



Turkestan. 



128. F. (P.) aberrans var. nitidior Forel. 



F. (P.) aberrans var. nitidior Forel, Ann. Mus. St. Petersbourg, 1904, 8, p. 383, 

 S ; Ruzsky, Formicar. Imper. Ross., 1905, p. 421, ^ ; Emery, Deutsch. 

 ent. zeitschr., 1909, p. 203, ^ . 



Worker. More shining than the typical aberrans and no more 

 sharply sculptured than F. gagates. 



Turkestan. 



129. F. (P.) ocuLATissiMA Forel. 



F. oculatissima Forel, Ann. Soc. ent. Belg., 1886, 30, C. R. p. 161, cf; Dalla 



Torre, Catalog. Hymen., 1893, 7, p. 203. 

 F. (Proformica) oculatissima Emery, Deutsch. ent. zeitschr., 1909, p. 203, cf . 



Male. Length 7 mm. ; anterior wings 7.3 mm. 



Body slender; head small, with enormous eyes and ocelli. Man- 

 dibles edentate. Clypeus ecarinate; clypeal fovea distinctly sepa- 

 rated from the antennal fovea. Thorax rather depressed, epinotum 

 more sloping than in the other species of Proformica. Petiolar scale 

 as thick as high, feebly emarginate above. Subgenital plate emargi- 

 nate on each side, with rounded median lobe. Wings with a large 

 discoidal cell. 



Body shining. 



Hairs suberect, rather abundant on the head, ventral surface of the 

 body and genitalia, sparse on the thoracic dorsum and upper surface 

 of the gaster, absent on the scape; tibiae with a few suberect hairs. 



Black; antennae, mandibles, and coxae yellowish brown, remainder 

 of legs yellow. Wings nearly colorless, with pale veins and brown 

 stigma. 



Greece. 



