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shining, with moderately coarse punctation. Postpetiole more shining, with 

 sparser punctation. Gastervery shining, finely and sparsely punctate. Legs 

 somewhat shining and strongly punctate. 



Occipital margin, mandibles, and tip of gaster with very sparse and fine 

 erect pile. Scapes with a row of ten to twelve stout curved hairs, funiculus 

 with appressed and glistening hairs. Legs with sparse, appressed hairs. 

 Petiole and postpetiole with fungiform processes in a narrow band at the 

 apical margins and more abundantly on the ventral surface. The greater 

 part of the body is without erect pile or pubescence. 



Color reddish brown; pilosity white. 



Male. Length 2.25 mm. 



Head, excluding eyes, longer than broad; sides rounded; occipital border 

 shallowlj' concave between the posterior ocelli. Cheeks a third as long as 

 the eyes. Clj^peus convex basally, anterior border feebly concave. Mandibles 

 short; bidentate at apex. Eyes convex, their longitudinal diameter as long 

 as their distance from the posterior ocelU. Antennae 13-jointed; scape less 

 than twice as long as it Ls broad at base; first funicular joint as thick as the 

 scape and more than half as long; remaining joints very gradually becoming 

 longer toward apex; terminal joint one and a half times as long as the penulti- 

 mate. Pronotum flattened and collar-like in front. Mesonotum rounded 

 above; with strong MajTian furrows. Scutellum broader than long, rather flat 

 in front, convex behind. Epinotum flattened basally; its very distinct declivous 

 portion flat and broadly margined at sides. Petiole in profile rounded above, 

 much longer than high; from above, twice as long as broad. Postpetiole a 

 little longer than broad, rounded above and at sides; in profile a httle longer 

 than deep. Legs slender. 



Head and thorax subopaque; very densely punctate. Petiole and post- 

 petiole punctate at sides; above smooth and shining. Gaster very shining. 

 Legs subopacjue, with fine but dense punctation. 



Antennae with abundant, glistening white oppressed hairs, as in the worker. 

 Legs with a few fine hairs which are more abundant on the tarsi. The rest 

 of the body is without pilosity except for a very few hairs on the thorax and 

 apically on the gaster. 



Color black; the head and thorax intensely so, the rest dilute. 



Wings hyaline. Veins and stigma brow-n. 



Ysabel: Fulakora. 



84. Strumigents antaeus, sp. nov. 



Worker. Length 3.25 mm. 



Near S. chyzeri EmerJ^ 



Head broadly cordate, deeply excavated behind, occipital corners narrowly 

 rounded, sides strongly constricted in front of eyes; cheeks swollen basaUj^, 



