90 HYMENOPTERA. 



24. PONERA POMPILOIDES. B.M. 



Male. Length 3 lines. — Black : antennte elongate and finely 

 pubescent. Thorax elongate-ovate, obscurely ferruginous in 

 front and behind ; wings subhyaline, the nervures pale testa- 

 ceous, the stigma brown ; the apex of the coxae and the base of 

 the femora rufo-piceous ; the apical joints of the tarsi pale fer- 

 ruginous. Abdomen elongate, with a scattered pale downy pu- 

 bescence ; the apical margin of the first segment slightly con- 

 stricted ; the node of the peduncle conical and rufo-piceous. 



Hab. Borneo (Sarawak). 



25. PoNERA L^VICBPS. 



Worker. Length 3 lines. — Black, smooth and shining : the 

 head elongate, with a few striae on each side of the clypeus ; the 

 latter triangular, with a central longitudinal raised carina ; above 

 the clypeus a central impressed line runs half way towards the 

 posterior margin of the vertex. Thorax narrowed into a short 

 neck in front, behind which it is swollen, thence it is compressed 

 and narrowed to the apex, which is oblique and transversely 

 rugose ; the tarsi pale rufo-testaceous. Abdomen : a deep 

 strangulation between the first and second segments ; the node 

 of the peduncle rounded and elevated. 



Hab. Borneo (Sarawak). (Coll. W. "W. Saunders, Esq.) 

 Species of Africa. (Sp. 26-35.) 



26. PoNERA GAG.A.TES. 



Ponera gagates, Guer. Icon. Reg. Anim. Ins. iii. 423 ^ . 

 Hab. Senegal. 



27. Ponera Abyssinica. 



Ponera Abyssinica, Guer. Voy. en Abyss, vi. 352. t. 7- f- 6. 

 Hab. Abyssinia. 



28. Ponera denticulata. PI. VL figs. 13, 14. 



Female. Length A\ lines. — Black : the head wider than the 

 thorax, oblong- quadrate ; the antenna;, mandibles, and margins 

 of the carina between the antennae, obscurely ferruginous ; the 

 anterior margin of the clypeus regularly denticulate ; the man- 

 dibles with five long acute teeth ; the head strongly longitudinally 

 striated. Thorax above, deeply and transversely striated, the 

 scutellum longitudinally, and the sides obliquely so ; the anterior 

 tarsi clothed beneath with golden-yellow pubescence ; the tibiae 



