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Wheeler: Tachigalia Ants 



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FIG. 15. SOLENOPSIS ALTINODIS FOREL. WORKER, 

 lateral view of body : b, head from above : r, petiole and post petiole from above. 



apical borders oblique, with four distinct teeth. Clypeus project- 

 ing, with the usual pair of sharp carinse. These do not end at 

 the border in sharp teeth, but in small, rather blunt projections. 

 Lateral denticles lacking. Frontal area distinct, impressed. 

 Antennal scapes reaching nearly to the posterior fourth of the 

 head. Funiculi about as long as the two-jointed club; joints 2-7 

 broader than long, 2-6 being fully twice as broad as long; basal 

 joint of club a little longer than broad, somewhat less than a 

 third as long as the terminal joint. Thorax slender; pronotum 

 with subrectangular humeri and straight subparallel sides, in 

 profile evenly and feebly convex above. Mesoepinotal constric- 

 tion short but pronounced ; epinotum long, its base feebly convex, 

 indistinctly bidenticulate behind and nearly twice as long as the 



