A Monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. 147 



The scale of the petiole is much wider than in the £ , and not 

 so narrow above. Abdomen oblong. Wings slightly smoky, 

 stigma and nervures dark brown. 



$ . 3-8-4-2 mm. Brown, antennae, mandibles and legs pale 

 yellow, a transverse area between the mesonotum and scutellum 

 dirty yellow. Pubescence as in the £ . The head is shaped like 

 that of the 2 , but the posterior angles are less rounded. The eyes 

 are very large, occupying more than half the sides of the head, their 

 anterior margins being separated from the base of the mandibles by 

 a distance equal to about half the length of the 1st joint of the 

 flagellum. The mandibles are triangular, thin and very small. 

 The antennae are short, filiform, not reaching back to the posterior 

 third of the mesonotum ; the scape is flattened, and shorter than 

 the distance separating the two posterior ocelli ; the 1st joint of the 

 flagellum is a trifle more than half the length of the scape, the 

 2nd joint is longest, and two and a third times as long as the 1st. 

 All the joints longer than wide, diminishing in length successively 

 towards the apical joint, which is a little longer than the preceding 

 joint. Pronotum hidden by the mesonotum. The latter is very 

 globose, convex transversely, and as long as wide. The Mayrian 

 and parapsidal furrows but feebly indicated. The scutellum is 

 raised considerably above the level of the mesonotum and epinotum, 

 and is much more convex transversely than in the 2 . The dorsum 

 of the epinotum is much longer than in the 2 , as long as the scutel- 

 lum and as long as its apical width ; the declivity is vertical, with 

 the brow distinctly rounded. The scale of the petiole is much wider 

 than it is high, and more than twice as wide as long. Abdomen 

 ovate, genitalia partially exserted. Legs long and slender. Wings 

 as in the 2 • 



Capetown. Maseru, Basutoland ; (E. M. Sloley). (S.A.M., E.M., 

 G.A. colls.) 



Genus TECHNOMYEMEX, Mayr. 



Ann. Mus. Stor. Nat. Genoa, vol. 2, p. 147, 1872. 



Characters. 



% . Anal orifice apical. 



2 . Not much larger than the $ . Anterior wings with 1 dis- 

 coidal and 2 closed cubital cells. 



$ . Antennae filiform ; scape not longer than the first 2 joints 

 of the flagellum. The cubital vein in the front wing is sometimes 

 broken in the region of the 2nd cubital cell. Mesonotum not pro- 



