ANTS FROM HONDUBAS AND GUATEMALA MAXN. 



PHEIDOLE WALKERI, new species. 



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Soldier.— length 3.90 mm. (fig. 13). 



Head, excluding mandibles, one-fifth longer than broad, slightly 

 narrowed in front, sides nearly straight, occipital corners rounded, 

 occipital border narrowly and rather deeply concave at middle; 

 vertex with a deep median sinus. Blades of mandibles with a pair 

 of very blunt teeth at tips. Clypeus obtusely carinate at middle of 

 basal half, anterior surface rather flat, border very shallowly con- 

 c ave. Frontal lobes short and thick ; seen from the side, projecting 

 and broadly triangular; their carinae very short. Antennal scapes 



Fig. 13. — 1'hbidoli: walkkri, new species. Soldier. 

 1), head, thorax, axd petiole. 



slender, extending a little more than half the distance to occipital 

 corners; funicular joints 2-8 a little longer than broad. Eyes small, 

 little convex, situated at anterior third of sides of head. Thorax 

 strongly convex in profile, humeri rounded, sides at middle sub- 

 gibbous. Mesepinotal impression profound. Base of epinotum dis- 

 tinctly longer than the declivity and separated from it by an angle ; 

 surface with a shallowly, longitudinal impression at middle. Spines 

 erect, elongate triangular, shorter than their distance apart at base. 

 Petiolar node in profile blunty conical; dorsal border concave at 

 middle. Postpetiole twice as broad as long, sides at middle some- 

 what projecting and narrowly rounded. Legs rather stout. 



