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Head reticulate; antennal grooves foveolate. Thorax rugose. 

 Head, thorax, and peduncle punctate. Gaster smooth and shiny. 



Erect hairs are wanting on the antennae and legs; short but not 

 clavate hairs on the thorax and abdomen. Pubescence on the head 

 behîg thick, silvery and long clavate ; while, that on the restof the 

 body being thin; on the whole, pubescence being very distinct 

 and rather long. The posterior part of the postpetiole are covered 

 with a spongy substance. 



Reddish yellow or yellowish brown, being of the same colour 

 with St. Gode/froyi Mayr var. Letom (Cameron) ; head and gaster 

 darker. Abdomen and legs yellow or reddish yellow. 



flab.: .lapan : prov. Nagato in the Island of HondôiY. Nawa). 4 Ç. 



This species belongs to Ihe Baudueri group; il also seems to 

 resemble St.iiieinbra7iif'eraFMEnY, from which it difters by tlie 

 head being more produced and become narrowed anteriorly, by the 

 antennal scapes being longer, more sU;iider, and not thickened, by 

 its more slender thorax and pedical, and by the legs being longer. 



Soletiopsis fiigax Latr. 



? 1 1/2-2 mill. long. 



Hab. : Japan : Tokio, in my garden in Koishikawa (T. Ito). 19 ^*. 



This is, I believe, a very interesting rediscoveiy, since the first 

 record of this species made by Mons. Er.nest André in 1903, 

 absointely nothing .was kiiown with regards to its occurrence in 

 Japan. 



In .tapan this species is associaled with Fheidole fervidaFB. Smith, 

 whose colour it so closely resembles. It makes very narrow side- 

 tunnels near or along the nests of Fheidole fervida, so narrow thaï 

 the latter species seems to be quite iinable to enter them. 



Cremastogaster Auberti Emery var. Na"wai nov. var. 



?. .3-3 1/2 mill. long. 



Similis Cr. Atibertii Emery typico, ditfert vertice capitis, thorace, 

 gastereque, segmento basilari incluso, sparse sed distincte piloso; 

 gastere supra, prteter segmento basilari, non adpresse pubescenti ; 

 atque leviter et pallide fusco. 



Head subquadrangular,excluding the mandibles as long as broad, 

 sides convex, posterior border conçoive, strongly convex in front. 

 .Mandibles strong and thick, curved inward, the masticatory margin 

 with 4 teeth. Clypeus broad, triangular, convex, its anterior mar- 

 gin nearly straight, narrow behind with round posterior margin. 

 Frontal area rather obscure. Frontal carinae short, but prominent. 



