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so far as can be seen, is very similar. The eyes are less convex. 

 Only a few hairs are visible on the body and these are widely 

 scattered and rather coarse. The appendages seem to be naked. 

 Color black. 



Described from one specimen (B 18239 type) in the collection 

 of the Geolog. Inst. Koenigsberg. 



Tribe Proceratini Emery. 



Genus Bradoponera Mayr. 



JBradoponera meieri Mayr. 



Bradoponera meieri Mayr, Beitr. Naturk. Preusp. I, 1868, p. 74, Taf. IV, Figs. 70, 71 $; 



Ern. Andre, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, XX, 189.'), p. 82. 

 Bradyponera meieri Dalla Torre, Catalog. Hymen. VII. 1893, p. 18; Handlirsch, 



Fosf». Insekt. 1908, p. 879. 



Worker (Fig. 4a). This phase was carefully described by Mayr 

 from five specimens, at leas^^ one of which (No. 373/7659) is in the 



Geolog. Inst. Koenigsberg Coll. 

 I have examined ten specimens 

 from this collection (Nos. 545/9493 ; 

 991/1387; 373/7659; XXB 1283; 

 B 18515; XXB 1933; XXB 2165; 

 and two without numbers), but am 

 able to add little to Mayrs des- 

 cription. He states that he was 

 unable to give a clear account 

 of the sculpture of the specimens 

 as they were more or less covered 

 with white films. I believe, ho- 

 wever, that his description is, in 

 the main, correct. The head is 

 covered with coarse, umbilicate 

 punctures, separated by very finely 

 regulose intervals. The man- 

 dibles, clypeus, thorax and espe- 

 cially the abdomen are more finely and densely punctate. The thorax 

 is delicately rugulose and on the sides with a distinctly longitudinal trend 

 to the rugulce. The scapes and legs are sparsely and coarsely punctate. 



Female (ergatoid) (Fig. 4b). Length 3,25 mm. 

 A single specimen (XXB 1933) from the Geolog. Inst. Koenigsberg 

 Coll. differs from the worker in having ocelli and a typical female 



Fig. 4. Bradoponera meieri Mayr. 

 a) Worker, B2165; b) Female, B 1933. 



