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ut is much smaller and otherwise different to that of 
tuberculata. When the head is extracted from the prothorax 
it may be seen that the latter has a large excavation or fovea, 
partially invisible from above, for the reception of each 
there is a shallow depression (representing them 
side, to which the striae are directed. | 
CHLAMYDOPSIS STRIATIPENNIS, n. Sp. 
Pl. xxv., fig. 15. 
Black; elevated front margins of prothorax, antennae 
(club infuscated), and legs reddish-castaneous. 
Head immersed in prothorax when at rest; face with 
shallow reticulate punctures. Antennae not very long; scape 
curved at base, thickened to apex, with punctures as on face ; 
funicle short, apparently six-jointed ; club moderately long 
d subcylindrical. Prothorar strongly transverse, front 
margin narrowly elevated behind head, then more strongly 
elevated and curved to margins, narrowest at base; with 
: (in comparison with other 
Species), its deepest part highly polished, not indicated on the 
Sides; tips wi 
s um, and 
subreticulate punctures, elsewhere with small ones. Pygidium 
and. propygidium with dense reticulate punctures, a 
5S stout, and with the dentiform projection . 
Obsolete; hind tibiae longer, still less stout (but with the 
still fairly thick), and without a dentiform projec- 
ztn, 42/0 mm. 
Tia ab.—Victoria: Lorne, from a nest et s am es 
ridomyrmex in October (F. E. Wilson). 41 unique), 
I. 10676. T a 
A strongly striated species, readily distinguished from 
E all others of the genus by (in combination) great width across 
