HYMENOPTERA. 165 



the apical margins of the segments rufo-piceous, the nodes of the 

 peduncle globose and punctured. 



Hab. Borneo (Sarawak). (Coll. A. R. Wallace.) 



13. ATTA CINGULATA. 



Worker major. Length If line. Ferruginous. Head very 

 large, thrice the width of the thorax ; the antennae pale ferrugi- 

 nous ; eyes very small, placed a little before the middle, at the 

 sides of the head. Thorax much swollen in front, much narrowed 

 behind, with two short acute spines on the metathorax ; legs pale 

 rufo-testaceous. Abdomen ovate, the base truncated ; a fuscous 

 ring round the middle ; the nodes of the peduncle globose. 



Hab. Borneo (Sarawak). (ColL A. R. Wallace.) 



14. ATTA NODJFER. B.M. 



Worker minor. Length 1| line. Rufo-testaceous, and en- 

 tirely smooth and shining : the mandibles, antennae, articulations 

 of the legs and the tarsi, pale testaceous ; the thorax, nodes and 

 base of the abdomen rather paler than the head ; the thorax- 

 narrowed behind, and deeply strangulated between the meso- and 

 metathorax, the latter having two minute acute spines ; the an- 

 tennae and legs pubescent, and a few longer hairs thinly scattered 

 over the head, thorax and abdomen ; the first node of the pe- 

 tiole small and subconical, the second as wide as the metathorax, 

 and globose. 



Hab. North China. 



Species of Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. Sp. 15-21. 



15. ATTA TESTACEO-PILOSA. PI. IX. figs. 25, 26. 



Myrmica testaceo-pilosa, Lucas, Explo. Sc. de VAlger. iii. 300. 



Nyl. Form. Fr. et d'Alger. 86. 12. 

 Aphenogaster similis, Mayr. Form. Austr. 194. 1. 



Hab. Algeria ; Sicily ; Austria ; Dalmatia ; Sardinia. 



16. ATTA SCALPTURATA. 



Myrmica scalpturata, Nyl. Form. Fr. et d'Alger. 83. 8. 

 Hab. Algeria. (Coil. Dr. Sichel.) 



17. ATTA HOSTILIS. B.M. 



Worker. Length 1 line. Ferruginous, with the abdomen 

 fuscous, or sometimes black; the thorax, legs and antennae paler 



