110 HYMENOPTERA. 



the legs and sides more or less feiTuginous ; wings subhyaline, 

 the nervures fuscous. Abdomen oblong, with scattered punc- 

 tures ; the apex acute and rufo-testaceous. 



Worker. Closely resembles the female, but is less coarsely 

 punctured on the vertex, and the truncation of the metathorax is 

 not rugose. 



Hab. Australia. 



This species is rather larger than A. austraUs, of a diiferent 

 colour, and more coarsely sculptured, but may very possibly be 

 only a local variety of the Tasmanian species. 



3. Amblyopone ferruginea. B.M. 



Worker. Length 2 lines. — Ferruginous : the head covered 

 with a rugose punctate striation, the mandibles shorter and more 

 bent than in A. australis ; the prothorax striated, the striae 

 obscurely punctured ; the meso- and metathorax smootli and 

 shining ;' the node of the peduncle transverse, rounded or sub- 

 globose; the abdomen oblong, widest towards the apex, which 

 is acute. 



Hab. Melbourne. 



Genus 9. TYPHLOPONE. 



Typhlopone, Westw. Introd. Class. Ins. ii. 219 (1840). 

 Labidus (Tvphlopone), Shuck. Ann. Sj- Mag. Nat. Hist. v. 326 



(1840). 

 Cosmacetes, Spin. Mem. Accad. Torino, xiii. 70 (1853). 



Head oblong, more or less emarginate behind, nearly as long 

 as the thorax ; eyes and ocelli obsolete in the workers. An- 

 tennae subclavate, about the length of the head, 10-jouited; the 

 scape nearly as long as the flagellum, and subclavate ; mandibles 

 curved, acute at their apex; the labial and maxillary palpi 

 2-jointed. Thorax oblong, much narrower than the head, a 

 deep transverse suture separating the pro- and mesothorax ; the 

 legs stoutish, all the tibiae with a calcar at their apex ; the claws 

 of the tarsi simple. Abdomen elongate-ovate ; the node of the 

 peduncle quadi-ate, of the same width as the base of the abdomen, 

 which is truncate. 



1. Typhlopone fulva. B.M. 



Typhlopone fulva, Westw. Introd. Class. Ins. ii. 219 (1840); Ann. 



S,- Mag. Nat. Hist. vi. 87 ^ (1841). 

 Typhlopone Kirbii, Shuck. Ann. c^- Mag. Nat. Hist. v. 265 (1840). 



Hab. West India Islands? (Found in sugar.) 



