OF NEW ZEALAND. Ill 



F. ZEALANDICA. Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc, 1878, p. 6. 



Female. The abdomen blacky tlie bead and thorax blackish-brown^ 

 covered with a fine cinereous pile^ which is most dense on the abdomen ; 

 the mandibleSj the scape of the antennse, and the flagellum at their base 

 and apex pale rufo-testaceoiis. Thorax ovate^ smooth and shining ; 

 the metathorax obliquely truncate ; the femora rufo-fuscous, with their 

 apex^ the tibiae, and tarsi pale rufo-testaceous ; the tibiae usually more 

 or less fuscous in the middle. Abdomen ovate, shining, and with the 

 margins of the segments very narrowly testaceous ; the scape of the 

 petiole ovate and emarginate above. 



Length, 2^ lines. 



Dunedin. 



Sub-Family — PoNEraNiE. 

 Peduncle of the abdomen with a single node ; the first segment 

 more or less constricted. Females and workers armed with a sting. 

 Pupae enclosed in cocoons. 



aenus-PONERA. 



Latreille. 



Maxillary palpi two-jointed (in the European species), or four- 

 jointed (in most exotic ones) ; the labial palpi two-jointed ; ocelli 

 obsolete in the workers ; eyes present in all the sexes (in the European 

 species the workers are destitute of eyes). The scale of the petiole 

 thickened, nodiform ; the first segments of the abdomen more or less 

 constricted. Females and workers furnished with a sting. Anterior 

 wings with one marginal, two complete submarginal cells, and one 

 discoidal cell. 



P. CASTANEA. Mayv, Reise der " Novara," Hymen., p. 69 (1867) . 

 Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc, 1876, p. 489. 



Female. Chestnut-red, usually with the head and metathorax 

 blackish ; the mandibles and antennae reddish, the margin of the 

 former denticulate, and the tips of the joints of the latter fuscous or 

 black ; the head shining, very thinly punctured, and covered with a 

 thin sericeous pile. Thorax oblong-ovate and very finely punctured, 

 shining and finely pubescent ; legs red, the calcaria pale testaceous. 

 Abdomen smooth and shining, the apex rufo-testaceous, having a thin 

 sericeous pile and a mixture of longer scattered pubescence ; the node 

 of the abdomen wedge-shaped, compressed above, with its upper 

 margin rounded. Length, 82 lines. 



