1915] Wheeler — Paranomopone 1 19 



dinal rugse on each side of the median line, which is itself represented by a ruga 

 continuous anteriorly with the median carinula of the frontal area and the clypeal 

 carina. The rugse .diverge on each side of the middle line and there are shallow, 

 elongate punctures in the interrugal spaces. Cheeks also with similar, but more 

 reticulate, coarse rugse. On the occiput and posterior corners of the head the longi- 

 tudinal rugae are replaced by very coarse punctures or foveolae, so close together 

 that the spaces separating them are converted into reticulate rugse. Thorax, petiole, 

 postpetiole, and first gastric segment finely punctate and covered with foveolse 

 similar to those on the occiput but distinctly sparser on the postpetiole and gaster. 

 Epinotal declivity, posterior declivity of petiole, scrobes of the head and a portion 

 of the mesopleurae glabrous and very shining, the scrobe also slightly striolate. An- 

 tennae, legs and terminal gastric segments subopaque, finely and densely punctate. 



Hairs and pubescence rather coarse, grayish yellow; the former long, erect, of 

 unequal length, covering the body, legs and scapes and quite as long on the extensor 

 surfaces of the appendages as on the body. Pubescence long and appressed on 

 the body, most distinct on the gaster and postpetiole, finer and denser on the legs 

 and antennal scapes. 



Head, thorax and petiole dark brown or piceous above; mandibles, clypeus, 

 antennae, pleurae, legs, sides of petiole and the whole of the postpetiole and gaster 

 richer brownish red. 



Female. (Figs. 5 and 6.) Length 5.5 mm. 



Differing from the worker only in the shape and size of the abdomen, the post- 

 petiole and first gastric segment being larger and the latter as broad as the petiole 

 and fxilly as broad as long. These segments are of the same dark brown color as 

 the head and thorax, whereas the remaining gastric segments are paler brownish 

 red, like the legs, antennae and mandibles. 



Described from a single female and two workers taken October 

 28, 1914, under a large rotten log in the moist tropical "scrub" 

 at Kuranda in Northern Queensland. These specimens with a 

 few nearly full-grown larvje apparently comprised the whole colony. 

 The larva (Figs. 7 and 8) is rather slender, pure white and covered 

 with delicate white hairs, which are short and rather dense, espe- 

 cially on the dorsal surface, and interspersed with fewer, longer 

 and more flexuous hairs. The head is rounded, sparsely hairy 

 and bears a pair of well-developed, tridentate mandibles. 



Paranotnopone has all the ear-marks of being a very ancient, 

 possibly Mesozoic genus, which still survives as a very rare relict 

 in tropical Queensland. It is difficult to assign it to a definite 

 position in any of the existing tribes of the subfamily Ponerinse 

 as enumerated and defined by Emery in the "Genera Insectorum." 

 In the structure of the thorax and abdomen there is considerable 

 resemblance to the peculiar Haytian genus Emeryella Forel among 



