526 Mr. F. Smith’s Descriptions of 
8. Cryptocerus notatus, Mayr, ibid. fig. 16, 2. 
Hab. Brazil. 
9. Cryptocerus hamulus, Roger, Berl. Ent. Zeitsch. 
(1863) sp. 103. 
Hab. St. Domingo. 
10. Cryptocerus flavomaculatus, Mayr, Verhandl. k. k. 
zool.-botan. Gesell. Wien, xn. 757. (1862). 
Hab. Brazil. 
11. Cryptocerus punctatus, Mayr, lib. cit., p. 762. 
Hab. Amazon. 
12. Cryptocerus spinosus, Mayr, lib. cit., p. 761. 
Hab. Amazon. 
Genus Mrranopius, Smith. 
I, Meranoplus fenestratus, n. sp. (Pl. XXVI. fig. 6.) 
M. thorace spinoso, quadrimaculato, abdomine ovato. 
Worker. Length, 2 lines. Ferruginous, the head and 
thorax finely shagreened, and with a series of longitudinal 
carine ; the thorax with four sub-ovate translucent spots, 
the posterior pair largest; the anterior margin rounded, 
the posterior emargimate, with a rounded notch m 
the middle of the emargination; the anterior angles 
slightly produced and acute, the posterior spinose, 
and a minute tooth at the sides a little beyond the 
middle ; the metathorax truncate, and with a long acute 
spine on each side at the margin; the legs, margins of 
the head before the eyes, and the antenne, paler than 
the body, the club fuscous ; the eyes black, the antenns 
nine-jointed. Abdomen ovate, and very delicately 
shagreened ; the nodes of the petiole coarsely rugose, 
the first node sub-ovate, the second transverse; the 
entire insect thinly sprmkled with erect hairs. 
Hab. Champion Bay. 
In the British Museum. Captured by Mr. F. H. 
Du Boulay. 
