58 Mr. F. Smith's descriptions of new species 



Genus PSEUDOMYEMA. 



Psendomyrma, Giier. Icon. Ee^. Anim. 427, ? (1838). 



Myrmex, Guer. lib. cit. 427, $\l838). 



Leptalea, Spin. Mem. Accad. Torino, xiii. 68 (1853). 



Head wider than the thorax; antennse clavate, 12-jointed 

 in all the sexes ; eyes very large, elongate-ovate ; ocelli 

 three in all the sexes. Thorax elongate-ovate in the 

 females, narrowed posteriorly in the workers; anterior 

 wings with one marginal and three submarginal cells, the 

 third cell extending to the apex of the wing. Abdomen 

 oblong, with two nodes, the first more or less pedunculated ; 

 the females and workers with four segments, exclusive of 

 the basal nodes, the males having five segments. 



1. Pseudomyrma hicolor, Guer. Icon. R^g. Anim. 



427, ?; Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. New Ser. iii. 

 157. 

 Hab. — Columbia; Panama. 



2. Pseudomyrma mandihularis (^Leptalea, Spin.), Mem. 



Accad. Torino, xiii. (^1853), p. 68. 

 Hab. — Para. 



3. Pseudomyrma unicolor, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. 



Lond. New Ser. iii. 158, 5. 

 Hab. — Brazil. 



*4. Pseudomyrma termitaria, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 Lond. New Ser. iii. 158, $, 5. 

 Hab. — Santarem. 



5. Pseudomyrma maculata, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. 



Lond. New Ser. iii. 158, 5. 

 Hab. — Brazil. 



6. Pseudomyrma sericata, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. 



Lond. New Ser. iii. 159, ?. 

 Hab. — Brazil. 



7. Pseudomyrma elegans, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. 



Lond. New Ser. iii. 159, 5. 

 Hab. — Para. 



