The Ants of the Baltic Amber. 



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Mandibles with oblique, dentate blades. Eyes vestigial. Antenna) 

 11-jointed; excluding the mandibles. First funicular joint fully as 

 long as the three succeeding joints together; joints 2 — 8 narrow, as 

 long as broad; club 2-jointed, its basal joint about one third as long 



Fig. 16. Erebomyrma aniiqua yixYR. a) Worker, B 19926; b) Worker, B243; 

 c) Female, B437; d) Male K 1029. 



as the enlarged terminal joint. Mesoepinotal constriction distinct. 

 Epinotum armed with two small acute and distinctly recurved teeth. 

 Petiole large, longer than high, its ventral portion convex in profile 

 and laterally compressed, its node with long, concave anterior and 

 shorter, nearly straight posterior declivity. Postpetiole small, subglobular 

 constricted posteriorly. Gaster large, elliptical, with small, concealed 

 terminal segments, like those of E. louyi. Legs long, with clavate 

 femora and tibiae. 



