HYMENOPTEliA. 1()5 



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

 })eduncle globose and punctured. 



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



13. Atta cingul.ata. 



Worker major. Length 1| line. — Ferruginous. Head very 

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

 nous ; eyes very small, })laced 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-tcstaceous. 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 nodifer. B.M. 



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

 tirely smooth and shining : the mandibles, antenn;e, articulations 

 of the legs and the tarsi, i)ale 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 jjubescent, 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. 15-2L 



15. Atta testaceo-pilosa. PI. IX. figs. 25, 26. 



Mvrmica testaceo-pilosa, Lucas, Explo. Sc. de V Alger, iii. 300. 



Nyl. Form. Fr. et d'Ahjer. 8(i. 12. 

 Aphenogaster similis, Muyr. Form. Austr. IfM. 1. 



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



16. Atta scalpturata. 



Myrmica scalpturata, Nyl. Form. Fr. et d' Alger. S3. 8. 

 Hab. Algeria. (Coll. 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 



