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and cheeks strongly striate longitudinally. Vertex and occiput coarsely 

 reticulate, with the interspaces densely punctate. A flat region on sides of 

 head, inward and posterior to the eyes, cribrately punctate and with a few fine 

 striae. Promesothorax irregularly reticulate striate and punctate. First 

 gastric segment finely and very densely striate longitudinally. 



Pubescence moderately abundant, long and fine on body, shorter on ap- 

 pendages. 



Brownish red; first gastric segment and appendages yellow-brown. 



Worker. Length 1.50 mm. 



Head a little longer than broad, as broad in front as behind, sides feebly 

 convex, posterior border shallowly concave at middle. Clypeus with distinct 

 anterior and posterior surfaces which are nearly flat; border straight. An- 

 tennal shapes surpassing occipital corners by about twice 

 their width at tip. First funicular joint longer- than the / \ 



following three together; joints two to eight about as long /■■' '\ 



as broad, club slender, as long as remainder of funiculus. \ y 



Eyes situated at sides of head a little in front of middle. )\ A 



Promesothorax little convex above, gibbous at sides, in I ; ; | 



profile strongly sloping behind to the mesoepinotal impres- 'j^- y 



sion. Base of epinotum longer than the declivity, flat JST 



above; spines rather slender, a little shorter than their C|^ ^ 



distance apart at base, extending upward, backward, and /^ \ 



slightly outward. Petiole similarly shaped, to that of / ^ 



soldier but thicker and broader above. Postpetiole Fig. 20.— Pheidole 

 transverse, twice as broad as petiole, broadest in front °''"*' ^'*""- 

 of middle. ^°''^'*''- '^'^""■^'' 



A' 1 i,T ,-, , ^ , . ^^'^ petiole from 



Nearly opaque. Mandibles finely striate and punctate. above. 



Clj-peus punctate and finely striate. Head, thorax, and 

 epinotum cribrately punctate, head with fine and sparse striolae, longitudinal 

 on front and cheeks, somewhat reticulate on vertex and occiput. Petiole, 

 postpetiole, and first gastric segment shallowly and rather densely punctate. 

 Pilosity and color as in soldier. 



Female. Length 4.75 mm. 



Head broader than long, somewhat narrowed in front, broadly concave 

 behind. 



Head strongly, longitudinally striate, reticulate on occiput, and rather 

 densely punctate. Mesothorax with finer, dense, and twisted striae and 

 punctate. Scutellmn shining basally with sparse, coarse punctures, rugulose- 

 striate apically. Epinotum shallowly cribrate-punctate. Petiole cribrately 

 punctate, the node transversely striate. Postpetiole strongly and closely 

 striate longitudinally. First gastric segment very densely striolate longi- 

 tudinally. 



