ABT. 13. AISTTS FROM HONDURAS AND GUATEMALA MANN. H 



LEPTOGENYS (LEPTOGENYS) GAGATES. new species. 



Worker. — Length ^4.5 mm. (fig. 5). 



Head subquadrate, a little longer than broad, sides and occipital 

 border nearly straight, occipital corners rounded. Mandibles 

 slightly enlarged toAvard tips; apical border short and feebly con- 

 cave. Clypeiis sharply carinate tit middle, median portion narrowly 

 and weakly triangular, acute at tip, anterior border with broad, 

 triangular teeth on either side of the median projection and closer 

 to it than to the lateral border of head. Eyes slightly shorter than 

 their distance to anterior border of head, composed of more than 30 

 facets. Antennal scapes surpassing occipital corners by less than 

 one-third their length; first, second, and third funcular joints sub- 

 equal in length and a little more than two times as long as 

 broad, remaining joints, except the terminal, 

 slightly longer than broad, terminal joint shorter 

 than the two preceding together. Pro- and 

 mesonotum together much shorter than the epi- 

 notum ; pronotum little longer than broad ; meso- 

 notum strongly transverse, more than two times 

 as broad as long and a little less than one-third 

 as long as pronotum ; epinotal base two times as 

 long and rounding into the declivity, which is ^^^ 5.-leptogents 

 flat and dentate at lower third of sides. Peti^)lar (Lkptoghnys) ga- 

 node in profile a little higher than long, nearly ""^T.^'^lZol^^r- 

 as broad above as beneath, with the vertical an- 

 terior face rounding into the nearly straight dorsum, posterior face 

 flat, rounding into the dorsum; from above a little longer than broad, 

 broadest behind and slightly narrowing anteriorly. 



Shining; sparsely, regularly and shallowly, though distinctly, 

 punctate and pilose throughout. 



Black; appendages reddish brown, the femora, nearlv black. 



Tyjje locality. — Honduras: San Juan Pueblo. 



C oty -pes. —C^t. No. 24439, U.S.N.M. 



Described from four workers. 



Near L. venatrix Forel, from which it differs in the shorter pro- 

 and mesonotum (in venatrix the two together are as long as the 

 metanotum) and in the shape of the petiole which in venatt^ is 

 nearly squamiform. 



LEPTOGENYS (LEPTOGENYS) DONISTHORPEI, new species. 



Worker. — Length 6.5 mm. (fig. 6). 



Head a little longer than broad, slightly narrowed behind, sides 

 and occipital border nearly straight, occipital corners broadly 



