NE 1 1 ' PHILIPPINE H YMENOPTERA—A SIIMEA D. Ill 



Female. — Length t).25 mm. C^losely resembles the worker in struc- 

 ture and size, but a little more robust, the thorax of a difl'erent shape, 

 convex above, the mesonotum lieing- fully twice as long as wide, with- 

 out parapsidal furrows; the humeral grooved line is slightly indi- 

 cated posteriori}" the scutellum is well detined, with the axilla? widel}' 

 .separated. 



The head and thorax are black, very linely closely punctulate or 

 shagreened, and opaque, the pronotum and pleura with delicate 

 wriidsles; the legs are mostly black, with the front and liind tibite 

 outwardly alone rufous, the til)ial spurs being white: the abdomen 

 has the white markings ditferent from the worker. The tirst and sec- 

 ond dorsal segments have an oblong white spot at their apical middle 

 and a white spot at their lower hind angles; the apex of the third 

 dorsal segment is margined with white; while some of the ventral 

 segments are also margined with white, the second bi-oadly so. The 

 .scale of the petiole is transverse, rounded al)ove. Wings hyaline, or 

 only faintly dusky, the stigma and veins yellowish, the basal nervure 

 sti'aight. the cubitus arising from above its middle and forked far 

 beyond its union with the radius, which is straight and almost perpen- 

 dicular, 



Type.—Q^. No. 8441, U.S.N.M. 



Manila. (Father Kobert Brown.) 



7. APHOMYRMEX EMERYI, new species. 



Ft male. — Length 2.S mm. Luteous, smooth and impunctate, with- 

 out pubescence, the disks of the dorsal abdominal segments broadly 

 tinged with brownish, the tarsi whitish. The head is oblong, quad- 

 rangular, fully one and a half times as long- as wide, the hind margin 

 almost straight, very slightly emarginate, the angles rounded, the eyes 

 oval. l)lack, facetted and placed much before the lateral middle; mandi- 

 bles rather large, triangular, decussate, the masticatory margin very 

 broad, the apical half armed with four distinct teeth, the basal half 

 apparently edentate; the antenna^ are apparently lo-jointed and widely 

 separated at base, the scapes not quite attaining the apex of the head; 

 the pedicel is obconical, longer than wide at apex, the Hagellum sub- 

 olavate, gradually thickened toward apex, the club not distinctly dif- 

 ferentiated. The thorax is al»out three times as long as wide, not wider 

 than the head, rounded anteriorly, but with a short, distinct neck; 

 posteriorly itisslightly narrowed, the metathorax with a rounded slope; 

 the mesonotum is convex above, without a trace of parapsidal furrows. 

 The a))domen is comparatively large, elongate oval, considerably longer 

 than the head and thorax united and niuch stouter, its base pressing- 

 close to the metathorax and entirely concealing the scale; the scale as 

 seen from the side is wedge-shaped, the gaster is composed of only 

 four visible segments, all of an equal length; legs bare, the hind tiltial 



