PONERA. 



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Winged ; antennae 13- jointed ; pygidium armed with a spine 



coarctata Latr. 



Apterous ; antennae 12- jointed ; pygidium simple - punctatissima Roger. 



Ponera coarctata Latr. 



Formica coarctata Latreille Bull. Soc. philom. Paris 3 No. 57, 65 (1802) 1 . 

 Formica contracta Latreille Hist. Nat. Fourmis 195 (1802) 2 . Ponera contracta 

 Latreille Hist. Nat. Crust. Insect. 13 257 (1805) 3 ; Stephens 111. Brit. Entom. 

 Sup. 15 (1846) 4 ; F. Smith Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (n.s.) 3 114 (1855) 5 : Ent. 

 Ann. 1857 34 6 : 1858 39 7 : Cat. Brit. Foss. Hym. 19 (1858) 8 : Ent. Ann. 1866 

 128 9 ; Baly Entom. 6 259 (1873) 10 ; Forel Denkschr. Schweiz. Ges. Naturw. 

 26 62 (1874) 11 ; B. Cooke Nat. 5 73 (1879) 12 ; Parfitt Trans. Devon Assn. 



Fig. 56. 



1. Head of Ponera coarctata $. 



2. Head of Ponera punctatissima $. 



Sc-Art 12 515 (1880) 13 ; Saunders Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1880 212 14 ; Dale 

 Ent. Mo. Mag. 17 236 (1881) 15 ; Lubbock Lin. Soc. Journ. Zool. 27 51 (1883) 16 ; 

 Fowler Ent. Mo. Mag. 21 38 (1884) 17 ; Capron Ent. Mo. Mag. 22 264 (1886) 18 ; 

 Wasmann Tijdschr. Entom. 34 49 (1891) 19 . Ponera coarctata Dalla Torre 

 Cat. Hym. 7 38 (1893) 20 . Ponera contracta D. Sharp Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 

 1893 203 21 ; Farren- White Ants Ways 238 (1895) 22 ; Saunders Hym-Acul. 

 29 (1896) 23 ; Bradley Ent. Mo. Mag. 33 46 (1897) 24 ; E. A. Butler Ent. Mo. 

 Mag. 35 290 (1899) 25 ; Donisthorpe Ent. Rec. 14 16 (1902) 26 ; Chitty Ent. 

 Mo. Mag. 39 69 27 , 283 28 (1903) : 42 212 (1906) 29 ; Vic. Hist. Durham 1 95 

 (1905) 30 ; Vic. Hist. Cornwall 1 182 (1906) 31 . Ponera coarctata Wasmann 

 Arch. Trim. Inst. Grand-Ducal Luxemburg 1906 13 32 . Ponera contracta Vic. 

 Hist. Kent 1 116 (1908) 33 . Ponera coarctata Emery Deutsch. Ent. Zeitschr. 

 1909 369 34 ; Wheeler Ants 96 35 , 174 36 (1910) ; Donisthorpe Ent. Rec. 23 

 13 1911) 37 : Entom. 44 389 (1911) 38 ; Emery Gen. Ins. 118 90 (1911) 39 ; 

 Donisthorpe Ent. Rec. 24 4 (1912) 40 : 25 61 (1913) 41 ; Crawley and Donis- 

 thorpe Int. Ent. Cong. Oxford 1912 ; 2 14 (1913) 42 . 



^ Dark brown somewhat shining, hairy especially on the gaster, but with 

 scarcely any pubescence, mandibles, clypeus, antennae, legs, and extremity of 

 the gaster reddish yellow sometimes the whole insect is of a reddish yellow colour. 



Head black, duller and more closely punctured than the thorax and gaster ; 

 mandibles with terminal border furnished with three or four stronger teeth 

 in front and indistinctly dentate posteriorly ; maxillary -palpi two- jointed, 

 the last joint terminated by a single hair ; gaster beneath, strongly rugose 

 transversely at the anterior portion of the second segment. Long, 3-3-5 mm. 

 (2-3 mm. teste Andre.) 



$ Very like the ^ ; eyes about the same distance, or a little further, from 

 the base of the mandibles, as their own length. Long, 4-4-5 mm. (3-3f mm. 

 teste Andre.) 



