HYMENOPTERA. 93 



35. PONERA MAXILLOSA. B.M. 



Worker. Length 3 lines. Black : antennae, mandibles and 

 legs ferruginous ; sometimes the head and thorax fusco-ferrugi- 

 nous, others with the ^oxae and scape of the antenna? fuscous; 

 opake and subpunctate. Head subquadnite, wider than the 

 thorax or abdomen ; eyes ovate, placed before the middle on the 

 sides of the head ; mandibles elongate, curved, of nearly equal 

 thickness throughout, not toothed. Thorax narrowed behind, 

 the metathorax obliquely truncate and slightly concave. Abdo- 

 men strangulated between the first and second segments ; the 

 apical margins of the segments rufo-piceous ; tin* terminal seg- 

 ment rufo-testaceous ; the node of the peduncle incrassate, 

 rounded above, elevated to the height of the first segment. 



Male. Length 2| lines. Black and slightly shining, finely 

 punctured : eyes and ocelli very large, the latter glassy bright 

 and very prominent ; the legs and antennae fusco-ferruginous ; 

 the antennae towards their apex, the articulations of the legs, 

 the tarsi, and tip of the abdomen, ferruginous ; wings fusco- 

 hyaline ; abdomen and node of the peduncle as in the female. 



Hal). Mauritius. (Coll. Dr. Beke.) 



Species of Australia. (Sp. 36'-39.) 



3(5. PONERA AUSTRAUS. B.M. 



Formica Australis, Fabr. Syst. Ent. 393. 1(5; Ent. Syxt. ii. 359. 

 41 ; Syst. Piez. 410. 59. 



Olio. Encycl. Meth. vi. 497. 33. 

 Ltitr. Hist. Nat. Fourm. 128. 



Hab. Australia. 



37. PONERA RUGINODA. B.M. 



Male. Length 4.} lines. Black : thinly covered with a loose 

 silky cinereous pile ; head and thorax roughly punctured ; 

 the mandibles ferruginous, more or less black at their base. 

 Thorax : the metathorax rugose, the tibiae and tarsi ferruginous ; 

 the wings hyaline, the nervures testaceous, the stigma fuscous. 

 Abdomen : the node of the peduncle subovate and coarsely ru- 

 gose ; the first segment deeply strangulated, much narrower than 

 the second ; the apical margins of the third and following seg- 

 ments obscurely rufo-piceous. 



Hab. Australia. 



3S. PONERA OCULATA. B.M. 



Male. Length 5 lines. Reddish-yellow : head black, with 



