A NEW SPECIES OF PONERINE ANT. 31 
profile, very slightly curved, the pronotum feebly bordered. The 
basal surface of the epinotum is slightly broader than long, the 
declivous surface as long as the basal, the angle joining them 
slightly larger than a right angle. Node of petiole viewed from 
above broader than long, wider and convex in front, concave 
behind; viewed in profile, straight in front and convex behind; 
underneath with a small tooth. Gaster slightly broader than the 
head, hardly constricted after the post-petiole. 
Mandibles smooth and shining, with a few scattered punctures. 
‘Clypeus in centre with a small shining space, bordered by a few 
strie. Head longitudinally rugose, with a few punctures on the 
occiput. Antennal scapes finely punctured. Pronotum with a 
central longitudinal strip smooth and shining, the rest and the 
mesonotum finely punctured. Epinotum, pedicel and gaster smooth 
and shining. Sides of thorax finely striate. Anterior femora and 
tibiz finely punctured. 
The whole body covered with a golden pubescence; a double 
row of long stiff hairs on the inner margin of mandibles, along the 
curve from the apex to the tooth beyond the halfway line; several 
long stiff hairs on the clypeus, and a few scattered hairs on the 
epinotum, node, and gaster, and rings of stiff hairs on the apical 
segments of the latter. Dorsal surface of middle tarsi with a row 
of stiff hairs. 
Chestnut ; head and antenne slightly darker. Wings iridescent ; 
neuration as in figure. 
The genus Myopias Roger contains two species, from Ceylon 
and New Guinea. In 1914 Santschi described a ¥ from French 
Guinea, placing it in a new subgenus Promyopias. I thought at 
first that P. asili might be the 2 of Santschi’s silvestrii, 
but the shape of the epinotum and especially of the node, 
together with a few other differences, induced me to consider it 
a different species. 
Both these species would appear to be hypogeic. 
The other ants in the Asilid collection comprise the following 
genera: Centromyrmer (1 2); Huponera (Mesoponera) (2 2); 
Paltothyreus (1 9); Sima (2 2 2); Carebara (3 3); Myrm- 
carta (2 2 and gS); Cataulacus (1 2); Crematogaster (1 2); 
Monomorium (Mitara) (2 2? 2); Cicophylla (2 2); Plagiolepis 
($ ¢ and $ 9); Camponotus (8 ¥ and 2 2); Polyrhachis 
(38, 22 and 8 8); anda number of male Ponerine. 
Note.—Since the above was in the press, I have received Prof. 
Emery’s opinion, viz. that Promyopias is more nearly allied to 
Pseudoponera than to Myopias, and therefore cannot be a subgenus 
of Myopias as Santschi had thought. I have followed Emery in 
considering it a separate genus. 
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