jiKT. 13. ANTS FEOM HONDURAS AND GUATEMALA MANK. 25 



PHEIDOLE (ELASMOPHEIDOLE) HONDURENSIS, new sp«cies 



iSoldier. — Length 3.10 mm. (fig. 12). 



Head, excluding mandibles, one and one-third times as long as 

 broad, slightl}' broadest in front: sides nearly straight, occipital 

 corners broadly rounded, occipital border rather strongly concave; 

 vertex with a narrow and dee]) median sinus. Mandibles short and 

 thick, blades concave, armed with a pair of coai*se, blunt teeth at 

 apex, and several very small and blunt teeth at middle. Clypeus 

 elongate, triangular, circularly impressed at middle and behind,^ 

 nearly straight at anterior border. Frontal carinae short, not ex- 



PlG. 12. PHBIDOLE (ELASMOPHEIDOLE) HONDUHENSISj 



NEW sPECii;s. Soldier. a, Head ; h, thorax and 



tending posterior to antennal fossae, their lobes thin and elevated; 

 from the side, projecting as triangular spines. Antennae short and 

 rather 'slender ; scapes somewhat flattened at base, extending a little 

 less than half the distance to occipital; first funicular joint distinctly 

 longer than the second and third joints together, third joint aboiit as 

 broad as long, joints 4—8 gradually increasing in length, those apically 

 distinctly longer than broad: club 3-jointed, about as long as re- 

 mainder of funuculus, joints longer than broad, with the terminal 

 as long as the other two together. Eyes rather large, feebly convex, 

 situated at anterior third of sides of head. Thorax about half as 



