collected in Madeira and Tenerife 209 



PONERA CONTRACTA, Ltr. 



$2^6. Madeira. T. V. W. 



Tetramorium simillimum, Nyl, 

 ^ 2. Madeira. T. V. W. 



Leptothorax unifasciata, Ltr. 

 ^ 4. Madeira. T. V. W. 



MoNOMORiUM SALOMONis, r. subopacum, Smith. 

 % ^. Numerous. Madeira. T. V. W. 



MONOMORIUM CARBONARIUM, Smith. 



^ 2 ? 4 ^ 5. Madeira. T. V. W. 



Pheidole megacephala, Fab. 



? ^. Several. Madeira. T. V. W. 



TaCHYSPHEX SIMON yi, Kohl. 



2^1$. Orotava, Tenerife ; on the sea-shore, 20 

 and 21. iii. 02. 



MiSCOPHUS EATONI, n. sp. 



Niger nitidns subaeneo-micans, facie punctatissima, mandiljulis 

 testaceis, apicibus piceis ; alis hyalinis, margine apicali late infus- 

 cata, propodeo transverse rngoso, medio canaliculato, lateribus 

 oblique striatis, abdomine nigro, punctato et microscopice ruguloso, 

 segmentorum apicibus subpiceis, pedibus nigris. 



5 Black, shining, head and thorax in certain lights with a very 

 slight bronzy tinge, face very slightly convex, so closely punctured as 

 to be almost dull, a very fine smooth line extends from between the 

 antennse to about halfway between their insertion and the anterior 

 ocellus. Clypeus more shining than the rest of the face, slightly 

 raised down the centre, its anterior margin reflexed and rounded in 

 the centre. Mandibles testaceous darker at the base and apex. 3rd 

 joint of the antenna? slightly longer than the following ones, vertex 

 shining, less closely punctured than the face ; ocelli equidistant 

 from each other, cheeks posteriorly with a few short glittering pale 

 golden hairs, thorax shining and punctured like the vertex of the 

 head, wings hyaline, with a well-defined darker apical band, not quite 

 extending to the cell nerves, area of the petiolated cell of much less 

 extent than that of the radial, mesopleura3 distinctly punctured, 

 legs entirely black, propodeum shining transversely and somewiiat 

 diagonally rugose, with a well-defined central sulcature, its sides 



