528 Mr. F. Smith’s New Species of Cryptoceride. 
Genus Catautacus, Smith. 
1. Cataulacus pretextus,n. sp. (Pl. XXVI. fig. 5.) 
C. capite thoraceque nigris, abdomine obscure ferru- 
gineo, scapo pedibusque ferrugineis. 
Worker. Length, 2 lnes. Black: reticulated, the 
abdomen more finely so than the head and thorax ; the 
margins of the head and thorax crenate; the margins of 
the head, before the eyes, narrowly pale ferruginous, the 
scape and basal joint of the flagellum of the same colour. 
Thorax: rounded anteriorly, gradually narrowed to the 
apex of the metathorax, which is emarginate posteriorly, 
and terminates at the posterior angles in acute spines ; 
the legs ferrugmous, the base of the femora obscure. 
Abdomen oblong-ovate; the base, with the margins, 
narrowly testaceous. 
Hab. Borneo. 
In the collection of W. Wilson Saunders, Esq. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXVI.. 
Cryptocerus conspersus, worker. 
Meranoplus diversus, worker. 
Cryptocerus scutulatus, worker. 
Cryptocerus exiqguus, worker. 
Cataulacus pretextus, worker . 
Meranoplus fenestratus, worker: 
Cryptocerus angulosus, worker. 
Meranoplus dimidiatus, worker.. 
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