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Brownish black; mandibles, antennee, clypeus and anterior lobes of 

 frontal carinae deep red; gaster and legs paler, ferruginous red; sides of 

 thorax and lower surface of petiole and postpetiole somewhat castaneous. 

 Wings brownish hyaline, with black pterostigma and brown veins. 



Described from 22 specimens taken by Mr. A. M. Lea on 

 Mt. Tambourine, Queensland. (Museum of South Australia). 



This species is most closely related to sauteri, but is much 

 smaller and is very distinct in the extremely flat, narrow body, 

 differently sculptured petiole and postpetiole, paler gaster, etc. 



Fig. 5. Metapone bakeri Wheeler. Female. 

 a, lateral view; b, head, doisal view; c, petiole and postpetiole. 



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Metapone bakeri Wheeler. 



Wheeler, Proc. New Eng. Zool. Club 6, 1910, p. 10, Fig. 1. 9. 



(Fig. 5.) 



Female. Length G.4 mm. 



Head less than one and one-fourth times as long as broad. Mandi- 

 bles short and convex, 4-toothed, with small basal lobe. Clypeus 

 convex, not marked off by a suture behind, its median lobe short and 

 broad, with a blunt, tooth-like projection on each side. Antennae 

 with very distinct S-jointed club, the two basal joints of which together 

 equal the terminal joint. Thorax narrower than the head, nearly 

 three times as long as high, its sides submarginate above; pronotum with 

 subangular humeri, mesonotum feebly convex, together with the scutel- 



