AUSTRALIAN HONEY-ANTS. 



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In addition to the pilosity on the clypeus, mandibles and venter, 

 there are also prominent black hairs on the coxse, and the scapes and 

 legs are covered with abundant, minute, oblique black hairs. Eyes 

 distinctly hairy. 



Body, femora and tibiae black, with bluish or greenish reflections; 

 antennal scapes black, with their apical third or fourth brown; man- 

 dibles and labium brownish yellow, the former with a fuscous spot or 



Figure 12. a. Leptomyrmex unicolor Emery, worker, with gaster in the 

 position in which it is usually carried; b. head of same from above. 



cloud at the base on the external margin; metatarsi of all the feet 

 white; remaining tarsal joints, tibial spurs and the antennal funiculi 

 fulvous. 



Queensland: Cairns (Podenzana); Kuranda (Wheeler). 



This species is very easily recognized, as it differs from all the others 

 in the shape of the head and gaster, in color and pilosity, the position 

 in which the gaster is carried during life, the structure of the larval 



