72 Mr. F. Smith's descriptions of new species, ^c. 



scattered pale setae; the entire insect has a thin, fine, 

 hoary pile. 



Hab. — S. Africa. 



This species is about the same size as T. rufonigra, 

 but it differs in the form of the abdomen being more 

 elongate and its nodes more globose. 



13. Tetraponera punctulata. 



Female. — Length 3^ lines. Jet black and shining; 

 the head and thorax very finely punctured, the abdomen 

 very delicately so. The antennse, mandibles, tibi^ and 

 tarsi light ferruginous. Head elongate-quadrate, with an 

 impressed fovea on the front between the eyes ; the pro- 

 thorax rounded anteriorly, from hence to the metathorax 

 gradually narrowed, the latter truncate posteriorly Avith 

 the margins rounded, not elevated above the prothorax ; 

 the petiole of the first node of the abdomen short, scarcely 

 half the length of the node, which is, as Avell as the second 

 node, subglobose ; the second broader than the first node. 

 Abdomen oblong. 



Hab. — Champion Bay, W. Australia. 



This species most closely resembles Tetraponera IcBviceps, 

 but that species has the metathorax elevated higher than 

 the prothorax. The punctula are to be seen only by the 

 aid of a moderately strong pocket lens. 



Type in the British Museum. 



