174 HYMENOPTERA 



Many of the Ponerides have elongate mandibles, but they are 

 inserted at the sides of the front of the head, not in the middle 

 of the front. These organs in some species of Odontomaehi 

 serve as levers, by aid of which the Insect can execute considerable 

 leaps. In only a few species are the males known ; ]\Iayr and 

 Forel state that they are destitute of the peculiar mandibles 

 characteristic of tlie worker. 



The unique European representative of the Odontomachi, 

 Anochetus ghiliani, occurs in Andalusia. Near Tangier Mr. 

 George Lewis found it to be not uncommon ; but the sexes are 



not known, and it even appears doubt- 

 ful whether there exists any well- 

 marked division between workers and 

 female. Lewis observed, among the 

 ordinary forms, individuals with longer 

 bodies, usually one in a nest, and he 

 supposed these to be females ; Saun- 

 ders, on examining these exam]>les, 

 found them to possess distinct ocelli, 

 and therefore agreed wnth Lewis as to 

 their being the female sex. Dr. Emery 

 subsequently examined these same 



Fig. 77. — Anochetus qhiliani, • i 4. i !„<-•„„ ^ 



worker Tano-ier Specimens, and took what is scarcely 



a different view, viz. that they are not 

 females but an intermediate form ; and he also expressed the 

 opinion that " the true female may not exist." The male of 

 Anochetus is not known. The female of A. mayri, a Neotropical 

 species, has rudimentary wings. 



Sub-fam. 5. Dorylides. — CJyi^cus extremely smedl, the antennae 

 inserted very near the front margin of the head. Mind 

 hody usually elongate and suhcylvndrical, ivith an imi^erfect 

 pedicel formed by the constriction of the hack of the first 

 segment, hut occasionally there are two nodes in tJie workers. 

 Bistinctions hetioeen the two sexes, and between the workers 

 and sexed forms, enormous, the queens truly ivingless. The 

 femcdes and workers usucdly blind, or at any rate destitute of 

 facetted eyes. {In Ecitonini the antennae are not inserted 

 quite at tl is front of the head, and there are two nodes in the 

 pedicel^ 



