hymenoptera. 19.3 



29. Ckyptocerus araneolus. 



Ci'vptocerus araneolus, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. new ser. ii. 223. 27. 

 Hah. St. Vincent's. 



30. Cryptocerus pubescens. 



Cryptoeems ? pubescens. Smith, Man. Crypt. Trans. Ent. Son. 

 Lond. 2u(l ser. ii. 223. 29. pi. 20. f. 4 ^ . 



Hah. Adelaide. 



Genus 2. MERANOPLUS. 



Cryptocerus, pt., Giier. Icon. Rhj. Anim. 425. 



Meranoplus, Smith, Mon. Crypt. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 2nd ser. 



li. 224 (1853). 



1. Meranoplus petiolatus. 



Meranoplus petiolatus, Smith, Mon.Crypt. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 

 2nd ser. ii. 224. 2. pi. 20. f . 7 ^ . 



Hah. Brazil. 



2. Meranoplu.s bicolor. 



Cryi)tocerus bicolor, Guer. Icon. Rhj. Anim. 425. 

 Meranoplus bicolor. Smith, Mon. Crypt. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 

 2nd ser. ii. 224. I. 



Hah. India (Poudicherry). > 



3. Meranoplus cordatus. 



Worker. Length 2 lines.- — Chestnut-red : the thora.v with 

 the anterior lateral angles acute, and armed posteriorly with four 

 spines. The head and thorax paler than the abdomen, the head 

 very delicately reticulated ; the eyes small, black, and placed 

 backwards on the sides of the head towards the vertex; the 

 clypeus vfidely truncate in front. Thorax slightly rounded in 

 the middle in front; the sides narrowed and rounded to the 

 base of the uietathorax ; the posterior margin transverse, at each 

 of its lateral angles a curved acute spine, with a shorter spine a 

 little beyond them ; the truncation of the metathorax with a 

 short acute spiue about t!ie middle on each side. Abdomen : 

 ihe first node, viewed laterally, is wedge-shaped, the second sub- 

 cjuadrate, its posterior margin produced into an acute spine ; the 

 anterior margin of the first node truncate; the abdomen heart- 

 shaped ; the entire insect sprinkled with erect pale hairs. 



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

 This is probably the worker of M. castaneus. 



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