52 SIR JOHK LUBBOCK ON ANTS, BEES, AND WASPS. 



Melophoetts baqoti, sp. n. 



Operaeia. — Antenuse 12-articulat8e, articulis basalibus longi- 

 oribus, apicalibus (ultimo excepto) brevioribus ; palpi maxillares 

 sexarticulati, labiales quadriarticulati ; antennge oriuntur ab 

 angulis clypei posticis ; fovea antennalis cum fovea clypeipartim 

 confluens ; area frontalis lata ; laminse f rontales distantes, breves, 

 rectse ; clypeus brevis, antice ciliatus ; mandibulse angustse, den- 

 tatse ; ocelli tres ; metatborax constrictus ; petioli squama verti- 

 calis ; abdomen orificio cloacae rotundo, ciliato, apicali ; vesicula 

 venenifica cum pulvinari ; gigeriorum lamellae breves, a basi 

 fortiter divergentes. 



DESCRIPTION OP PLATE II. 



Fig. 1. Outline figure of a slightly swollen specimen of the new Australian 

 Honey-ant, Melopliorus bagoti, three times natural size. 



2. The head, seen from above, X 10. 



3. Antenna, xlO. 



4. Mandible, XlO. 



5. Labium, Xl4, 



6. Maxilla, Xl4. 



7. Labrum, xlO. 



8. Knot, seen from behind, X 10. 



9. An outline of the thorax, viewed laterally, X 10. 

 10. An outline of the thoi-ax, seen from above, xlO. 



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