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Frsruary 10, 1916 Vou. VI, pp. 9-18 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 
FOUR NEW AND INTERESTING ANTS FROM THE 
MOUNTAINS OF BORNEO AND LUZON. 
BY WILLIAM MORTON WHEELER. 
For some time specimens of ants from Borneo, the Philippines 
and other East Indian ‘islands have been accumulating in my 
collection. Among these are four species belonging to rare and 
archaic genera, and although they are represented by single speci- 
mens, it seems advisable to describe and figure them by them- 
selves, as pressure of other work may greatly delay publication of 
the entire collection. The first species described below, Metapone 
bakeri, belongs to an extraordinary, recently discovered East 
Indian and Australian genus, which in certain respects is inter- 
mediate between two great subfamilies, the Ponerine and Myrmi- 
cine, although it has now been assigned to a special tribe of the 
latter. The second species, Dilobocondyla borneénsis, belongs to a 
small and imperfectly known group of rare ants allied to Atopo- 
myrmex. 'The third ant, Myrmoteras donisthorpei, is of peculiar 
interest because it is the unknown female of a singular genus 
founded many years ago by Forel on worker specimens of another 
species, taken in Burma by the late Col. C. F. Bingham. These 
ants, though very highly specialized, are evidently very rare sur- 
vivors of an ancient, probably Mesozoic, fauna. The fourth 
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