1919] Wheeler: The Genus Metapone 191 



border and tapering tip. Genitalia completely retracted; cerci appar- 

 ently absent; pygidium and hypopygium short and pointed. Legs 

 short, of the usual simple form, without the tibial and metatarsal teeth 

 or spines of the worker and female; spurs of the middle and hind tibias 

 simple, blunt at the tip. Tarsal claws very small, strongly curved, 

 nonpectinated. Wings very short (4.5 mm.), with a well-developed 

 discoidal cell, a single cubital cell and the radial cell slightly open at 

 the tip. Pterostigma large and conspicuous. 



Subopaque; mandibles opaque, longitudinally rugose and very finely 

 punctate. Head reticulate-rugose, the clypeus more coarsely, though 

 not transversely as in greeni. Front behind its anterior truncation with 

 regular longitudinal rugae converging to the anterior ocellus. Antennal 

 scrobes less distinctly longitudinally rugose. Upper surface of meso- 

 notum and scutellum and sides of thorax sharply and regularly longi- 

 tudinally rugose, on the mesonotum with elongate, shallow foveolse 

 in the narrow interrugal spaces. Dorsal surface of epinotum, including 

 the upper portion of the declivity with extremely coarse reticulate rugae, 

 some of which are clearly transverse. Petiole above less coarsely and 

 even more irregularly rugose. Postpetiole and gaster very finely and 

 densely punctate, with superimposed small, sparse and very regular 

 piligerous punctures. 



Hairs grayish brown, rather abundant, erect on the head, thorax 

 and petiole, mostly subappressed or oblique on the postpetiole, gaster 

 and legs. Antennal funiculi with very short fine hairs, or pubescence. 

 Wings minutely hairy. 



Black; mandibles, antennas, legs and tip of gaster reddish bro^^m, the 

 tarsi slightly paler. Wings grayish hyaline with slightly infuscated 

 tips and anterior margin; veins sharply defined, brown; pterostigma 

 dark brown. 



Type-locality: Kuching, Borneo (John Hewitt). 



The four males from which this species was described were 

 taken by Mr. Hewitt in 1908 and though they have been in my 

 collection ever since, I w^as unable to assign them to any genus 

 till Forel published his description and figures of Metapone 

 greeni. Though closely related to the male of this species, 

 hewitti differs nevertheless in having 4-toothed mandibles, a 

 different sculpture, especially on the clypeus, and very different 

 spines on the scutellum. The antennas are certainly 12-jointed 

 as shown in the accompanying figure. Forel evidently over- 

 looked the second funicular joint in the mature pupal males of 

 greeni which he examined. There is a possibility, of course, 

 that hewitti may be the male of sauteri or bakeri, though it 

 seems to be too small to be the male of the former and too 

 opaque to belong to the latter species. 



