HYMENOPTERA. V3 



35. PONERA JMAXILLOSA. B.M. 



Worker. Length 3 lines. — Black : antennse, mandibles and 

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

 nous, others with the coxae and scape of the antennae fuscous; 

 opake and subpunctate. Head subquadrate, wider than the 

 thorax or abdomen ; eyes ovate, ])laced before the middle on the 

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

 thickness througliout, 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 ; the terminal seg- 

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

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



Male. Length 2^ lines. — Black and slightly shining, finely 

 punctured : e\ es and ocelli very large, the latter glassy bright 

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

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

 the tarsi, and tij) of the abdomen, feiruginous ; w ings fusco- 

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



Hab. Mauritius. (Coll. Dr. Beke.) 



Species of Australia. (Sp. 3(5-39.) 



36. PoNERA AUSTRALTS. B.M. 



Formica Australis, Fabr. Syst. Eni. 393. 16; Eni. Syst. ii. 359. 

 41 ; Syst. Piez. 410. 59. 



Olic. E»ct/cl. Meth. vi. 497. 33. 

 Lair. Hist. Nat. Fourm. 128. 



Hab. Australia. 



37. PoNERA RUGIXODA. B.M. 



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

 silky cinereous ])ile ; head and thorax roughly punctured ; 

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

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

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

 Abdomen : the node of the ])eduncle subovate and' coarsely ru- 

 gose ; the first segment deei)ly strangulated, much narrower than 

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

 ments obscurely rufo-])iceous. 



Hab. Australia. 



38. PoNERA OCULATA. B.M. 



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



