1919] Wheeler — The Ant Germs Lordomyrma Emery 101 



but scarcely thicker than the penultimate. Thorax with the 

 promesonotum very convex, subglobose, acutely marginate in 

 front, the margin ending on each side in a tooth; metaepinotum 

 subselliform, with two very long spines, approximated at their 

 bases, strongly diverging, curved outward and very acute; meta- 

 sternal spinules minute, acute. Petiole a little broader behind than 

 in front, with a high subconical node, bearing a short acute, erect 

 spine, behind transversely rugose; postpetiole subrotund, obtusely 

 acuminate above, bearing a minute tubercle on each side. Gaster 

 subrotund, almost entirely covered by the basal segment. Legs 

 long, femora flexuous. Length 3.5 mm. 



"From the Lemien Forest near Berlinhafen [German New 

 Guinea]; a single specimen [L, Biro]." 



3. Lordomyrma cryptocera Emery. 



(Fig. 2.) 



Termeszetr. Fiizetek 20, 1897, p. 592, PI. 15, Fig. 34. ^ . 



"Worker. Piceous; mandibles, antennae, tarsi and articulations 

 of the legs ferruginous; very shining, covered with minute, scat- 



Figure 2. Lordomyrma cryptocera Emery, worker (after Emery), body in profile. 



tered, piligerous punctures. Head longer than broad; its sides 

 broadly arcuate, truncate behind, with rounded posterior corners, 

 marginate on each side beneath. Eyes at the middle of the sides 

 of the head. Frontal carinas prolonged backward, forming the 

 inner boundaries of a scrobe or fovea on each side and becoming 

 arcuately confluent with a cannula that forms its lateral boundary. 

 Cheeks, sides of head lateral to the scrobes and the lateral margin 

 of the front anteriorly longitudinally striate. Clypeus anteriorly 

 elevated and bicarinate, with rounded anterior margin. Mandi- 

 bles smooth, with very oblique, denticulate apical margin. Anten- 

 nal scape short, funiculus longer, slender at the base, but with 

 joints 2-7 much thicker than long; club much elongated and only 



