484 CLAUDE FULLEE. 



Mandibles like calipers ; more or less slender with broad 

 bases ; apical points up bent and strongly incurved : cutting 

 marg'ins simple, entire or with a faint wire-edge. Left 

 mandible not larger than right, but with a conspicuous 

 basal projection, the distal margin of which is at a right 

 angle to the cutting margin and has a small salient tooth 

 above it. 



Antennas moniliform ; pallid, translucent ; XlV-jointed, 

 characterised by the narrowness and often incomplete separa- 

 tion of joints III, IV, and V. Joints I and XIV sub-equal 

 (100 to 120 ju) ; II usually the second longest joint (60 to 70^) 

 sometimes nearly as long as III + IV + V, sometimes half or 

 less than half as long as III + IV -f V (III -h IV -h V 70 to 

 130 ju); VI and VII sub-equal (50 to 60 fx) generally a little 

 shorter than II ; VIII-XIII sub-equal (60 to 90^) generally 

 longer than VI and VII. (When possible to measure III, 

 IV, V separately : III (20 to 40 fx), IV (20 to 30 u), V (40 to 

 50 ju.) Joints I and II cylindrical, II tending to be obconic ; 

 III-IX more or less globose ; IX-XIII globose sub-conical 

 (moniliform) ; XIA^ oval, wider than penultimate ; IV the 

 narrowest joint, always the shortest; V-VIII gradually increas- 

 ing in width. 



Gula broad, as wide as ventral genae. Free apex propor- 

 tionately long, narrowed, distal margin straight; sides straight 

 -and oblique. 



Thorax. — Concolorous with abdomen, transparent, with 

 white and brown body-contents visible. 



Pronotum sellate. Mesonotum much narrower than pro- 

 notum. Metanotum broader than pronotum. 



Legs pallid; somewhat compressed ; tibia appearing two- 

 segmented and with a patella. 



Abdomen. — Haired; cerci with conspicuous bristles. 



Major Worker. 

 Measurements, — Total length 3*5 to 5 mm. ; head-width 

 I'O mm. 



H ead .^ — Pale yellow-brown ; haired ; dorsal outline elongate 



