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HVMENOPTERA 



ilany of the Ponericles have elongate mandibles, but they are 

 inserted at the sides of the front of the head, not in the middle 

 of the front. These organs in some species of Odontomachi 

 serve as levers, by aid of which the Insect can execute considerable 

 leaps. In only a few species are the males known ; Mayr and 

 Porel state that they are destitute of the peculiar mandibles 

 characteristic of the worker. 



The unique European representative of the Odontomachi, 

 Anochetus ghiliani, occurs in Andalusia. Near Tangier Mr. 

 George Lewis found it to be not uncommon ; but the sexes are 



not known, and it even appears doubt- 

 ful whether there exists any well- 

 marked division between workers and 

 female. Lewis observed, among the 

 ordinary forms, individuals with longer " 

 bodies, usually one in a nest, and he 

 supposed these to be females ; Saun- 

 ders, on examining these examples, 

 found them to possess distinct ocelli, 

 and therefore agreed with Lewis as to 

 their being the female sex. Dr. Emery 

 subsequently examined these same 

 specimens, and took what is scarcely 

 a different view, viz. that they are not 

 females but an intermediate form ; and he also expressed the 

 jDpinion that " the true female may not exist." The male of 

 Anochetus is not known. The female of A. mayri, a JSTeotropieal 

 species, has rudimentary wings. 



Sub-fam. 5. Dorylides. — Clypeus extremely small, the antennae 

 inserted very near the front margin of the head. Hind 

 body visually cloiujatc and suhcylindrical, with an imperfect 

 pedicel formed hy the constriction of the hack of the first 

 segment, hut occasioncdly there are tivo nodes in the irorhcrs. 

 Distinctions hetiveen the two sexes, and hetiueen the workers 

 and sexed forms, enormous, the c[ueens truly wingless. The 

 females and uwrkers usucdly Mind, or at any rate destitute of 

 facetted eyes. (In Ecitonini the antennae are not inserted 

 quite at the front of the head, and there are two nodes in the 

 pedicel.') 



Fig. 77. — Anochetus ghiliani, 

 worker. Tangier. 



