12 WHEELER — ANTS FROM BORNEO AND LUZON [En ae 
Hairs whitish, short, sparse, erect, nearly lacking on the pleure, most 
conspicuous on the gaster and legs. 
Black; mandibles tinged with red; antennz, fore legs, tibie, tarsi and 
tips and bases of femora of the middle and hind pairs, reddish castaneous; 
wings feebly infuscated, especially along the anteroapical margin; veins 
resin-colored; apterostigma dark brown. 
Described from a single specimen taken by Prof. C. F. Baker on Mt. 
Banahao, Luzon Island, Philippines. 
The genus Metapone was founded in 1911 by Forel on a species 
(M. greeni) from Peradenyia, Ceylon. As the types were taken by 
Mr. E. E. Green “from galleries in a decayed branch, which was 
also infested by two species of termites,’ Forel concluded that 
Metapone must be termitophagous. In 1913 he described a second 
species (M. sauteri) from a female taken by H. Sauter at Yokutsu, 
Formosa, and in 1915 a third species (M. mjébergi) taken by Dr. E. 
Mjéberg at Malanda, Queensland. The Museum of South Aus- 
tralia has recently sent me several worker and female specimens 
of this last species taken by Mr. A. M. Lea on Mt. Tambourine, 
Queensland, and at Dorrigo, New South Wales. All of these 
species differ from M. bakeri in several characters, such as the shape 
of the head, petiole and postpetiole, and in color and sculpture. 
They are all dark brown, much less shining, and have the head and 
thorax longitudinally striated. It thus appears that the genus 
Metapone, though only recently brought to light, has a wide dis- 
tribution in the Indomalayan and Australian regions and comprises 
at least four species. 
Dilobocondyla borneénsis sp. nov. 
Figure 2. 
Worker. Length 4.5 mm. 
Head, excluding the mandibles, a little longer than broad, subrectangular, 
slightly broader behind than in front, with acutely pointed posterior corners, 
broadly excavated posterior borders and nearly straight sides. Eyes 
moderately large and convex, at the middle of the sides of the head. Man- 
dibles convex, 6-toothed. Clypeus rather flat, abruptly descending, with 
a median and on each side three lateral ridges, which are scarcely more 
than longitudinal ruge; the anterior border distinctly notched in the 
