122 A REVISION OF THE GENUS PROMYRMECIA EMERY (FORMICIDAE) 
Female and male unknown. 
Habitat—Victoria: Inglewood (Sep., 1939). 
In general appearance like P. occidentalis, but much more 
slender. The colour varies slightly; one example has only the 
dorsum of the epinotum and the node red. 
This species is dedicated to Mr. M. J. C. Malone, of the Museum 
staff, in recognition of his assistance in typing the work. 
Promyrmecia elegans sp. nov. 
Plate XIV, figs. 44-45 
Worker. Length 13-14°5 mm. 
Head, postpetiole, gaster and all coxae black, postpetiole with’a large reddish 
patch at each side, mandibles and antennae yellow, legs reddish-yellow. Thorax 
and node bright red. 
Basal half of mandibles densely punctate, apical half coarsely and obliquely 
striate. Head, pronotum and mesonotum longitudinally striate, very finely and 
densely reticulate between the striae. Basal third of epinotum coarsely and 
irregularly rugose, transversely rugose behind. Node circularly rugose. Post- 
petiole and gaster finely and densely reticulate. Scapes and legs finely and densely 
reticulate, 
Hair yellow, short and erect, sparse on head and thorax, more abundant on 
postpetiole and gaster, very long on node and apex of gaster, short and suberect 
on legs, none on antennae. Pubescence whitish, very fine and adpressed, apparent 
only on postpetiole and gaster. 
Head as broad as long, occipital border straight or very feebly concave, sides 
feebly convex, posterior angles broadly rounded. Mandibles slightly longer than 
head, external border concave in middle, inner border furnished with ten sharp 
teeth, the first two very small. Frontal carinae as long as broad at middle. Scapes 
extend beyond the occipital border by about half their thickness. Second segment 
of funiculus twice as long as first, remainder subequal, apical-pointed, one-third 
longer than the preceding. Thorax two and one-fourth times longer than broad. 
Pronotum almost twice as broad as long, strongly convex in all directions. Pro- 
mesonotal suture sharply impressed. Mesonotum one-sixth broader than long, 
convex in all directions, meso-epinotal suture deep and wide. Epinotum one-third 
longer than broad, convex laterally; in profile pronotum raised and strongly convex 
in front, flatly convex behind. Mesonotum rather flatly convex. Epinotum strongly 
and evenly convex from base to foot of declivity. Meso-epinotal suture deep and 
wide. Node one-fifth broader than long, all faces convex; in profile higher than 
long, top half of anterior face short and vertical, bottom half sloping forward and 
downward at an acute angle, posterior face short and vertical, rounded into the 
dorsum, anterior edge of dorsum bluntly rounded. Ventral spine very short and 
sharp. Postpetiole barely twice as broad as long, broadest and strongly convex at 
basal third, constriction deep and narrow. First segment of gaster broader than 
long, strongly convex. Legs long and slender. 
Female, Length 16 mm. (dealated). 
Colour, sculpture and pilosity as in the worker. 
Larger and more robust. Head very slightly broader than long. Mandibles 
stronger, not as long as head. Scapes not extending to occipital border by fully 
their thickness. Thorax robust; parapsidal furrows sharply impressed, mayrian 
