The Ants of the Baltic Amber. 



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Body black, legs in some specimens dark brown ; wings uniformly 

 smoky brown, with darker veins and stigma. 



Described from four specimens in the Geolog. Inst. Koenigsberg 

 Coll. (B 18 862 (type), B 5126 and two without numbers). All of these 

 specimens are more or less obscured by white films and bubbles and 

 in none of them can the precise form of the petiole be determined. 

 In every one of them the gaster is enclosed in a froth of minute 



Fig. 65. Dryomyrmex fnscipennis sp. nov. Female. 



bubbles and this condition, together with the uniform preservation of 

 the specimens, indicates that they were probably all entrapped in the 

 liquid amber at the same time and place and that they were all members 

 of the same nuptial flight. One of the amber blocks contains a large 

 number of the stellata hairs of oak -leaves. 



At first I regarded this ant as a Camjwtiotus of the subgenus 

 Colohopsis, but the different structure of its antennae, which are 

 11- jointed, and of the frontal carinas, place it near Apliomomynnex. It 

 resembles A. afer Emery, but this species has 10 -jointed antennae in 

 the female. As I have not been able to find the worker of the amber 

 species, it has seemed best to regard the female, at least provisionally, 

 as the type of a new but extinct genus intermediate between Aphomo- 



