112 HYMENOPTERA. 



tate, the apical one obliquely truncated, the lateral margins finely 

 serrated ; the abdomen sprinkled with pale fulvous hairs, most 

 thickly so at the apex. 



Hob. Brazil (Villa Nova). (Coll. H. W. Bates.) 



9. TYPHLOPONE ORANIENSIS. B.M. 



Typhlopone oraniensis, Lucas, Explo. Sc. d'Alger. iii. 302. t. 16. 

 f. 11$. 



Hah. Algeria. 



10. TYPHLOPONE PUNCTATA. B.M. 



Worker. Length 2-3J- lines. Chestnut-red, smooth and 

 shining : the head and thorax punctured, the head most finely 

 so, the abdomen delicately punctured. Head oblong, emarginate 

 behind, the sides nearly parallel, slightly narrowed behind ; the 

 mandibles pitchy chestnut. Thorax convex above, the meta- 

 thorax not channeled. Abdomen : the node of the petiole sub- 

 quadrate, the first and second segments slightly constricted ; the 

 apex of the terminal segment abruptly truncated, with a minute 

 spine on each side and one in the centre of the inferior margin. 



Hab. Cape of Good Hope. 



11. TYPHLOPONE CURTISII. B.M. 



Typhlopone Curtisii, Shuck. Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. v. 265 



(1840). 



Hab. Ceylon. 



12. TYPHLOPONE L^EVIGATA. PL VIII. fig. 4. B.M. 



Worker. Length 4 lines. Chestnut-red, smooth and shining : 

 head longitudinally channeled, slightly so in some examples ; the 

 inner margin and apex of the mandibles black. Thorax : a slightly 

 impressed channel in front ; the peduncle narrowed and rounded 

 in front ; the abdomen and legs rather paler than the head ; the 

 margins of the segments of the former slightly constricted. 



Hab. Borneo (Sarawak). 



Genus 10. ANOMMA. 



Anomma, Shuck. Ann. fy Mag. Nat. Hist. v. 326 (1840). 

 Sphegomyrmex, Imhojf, Bericht uber die Verh. der Naturf. Ge- 

 sellsch. zu Basel, x. (1852) p. 175. 



Head widest in front , mandibles elongate, curved and forci- 



