INDO-NEERLANDICARUM. 89 



2. E. (rhytid.) coxale, Rog. 



Operarla : Long. 6.2 mm. Nitida , ferruginea , antennis pedi- 

 busque flavo-rufis, copiose pilosa, rude rugosa, caput margine 

 postico arcuatim excavato; thorax brevis supra longitrorsum for- 

 titer convexus; pronotum utrimque supra coxam dente obtuso 

 indistincto; petioli nodus crassus , rotundatus, postice deplanatus; 

 coxae postice ad basim spina armatae. (Sec. ex. a D. Roger). 



Borneo, Celebes, Aru (sec. Smith), Ceylon (sec. Roger). 



21. LOBOPELTA, Mayr. 



^ Mandibulae deplanatae , aut subtrigonae , aut marginibus 

 parallelis, ad apicem truncatis. Palpi 4-arliculati. Clypeus inter 

 antennarum 12-articulatarum origines acute produclus, in disco 

 tectiformis et fortiler carinatus , antice trigonaliter productus. 

 Petiolus supra cum squama aut nodo. Unguiculi pedinati. 



1. L. DIMINÜTA, Smith. 



Operarla: Long. 7— 7.5 mm. Nitida, nigra, mandibulis, funi- 

 culo, ano, articulationibus pedum tarsisque plus minusve fusces- 

 centibus aut rufis; copiose pilosa sine pubescentia distincta ; 

 mandibulae striatae apicem versus latiores et oblique truncatae , 

 margine masticatorio acuto ; caput subtiliter longitrorsum striatum , 

 vertice transversim et subsemicirculariter striato atque punctis 

 nonnullis dispersis; thorax supra plus minusve laevigatus, latera- 

 liter striolatus ; petioli nodus sublaevis , lateraliter compressus , 

 quadrilaterus, supra rotundatus, planitia antica convexa, postica 

 plana; abdomen laeve. (Sec. ex. typ.) 



Waigeou (Coli. Mayr a D. Smith sub nomine Ponera laeviceps 

 Sm.), Malacca (Coli. Mayr a D. Smith s. nom. P. simillima Sm.), 

 Borneo, Celebes, Batjan (sec. Smith), Ceylon (sec. Roger). 



2. L. MUTABiLis , Smith. 



Operarla: Long. 6.5mm. Nitida, ferrugineo-caslanca, pedibus 

 pallidioribus ; pilosa sine pubescentia distincta; laevis, punclis 

 dispersis piligeris ; mandibulae subtiliter striatae marginibus 



