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wider than the 1st, a little wider than long. Cheeks, frontal carinae, 

 and antennal pits striate. The rest of the head smooth, with a strong, 

 scattered, and abundant puncturation. Thorax and petiole densely 

 and not very finely reticulate-punctate and dull, except the dorsum, 

 which is reticulate and sub-opaque ; the middle of the pro-meso- 

 notum smooth. Abdomen and legs smooth. An erect, short and 

 yellowish pilosity fairly abundant over the whole body, especially the 

 abdomen. The legs and scapes have only a decumbent pubescence, 

 which also occurs on the body, particularly the head. Black; man- 

 dibles reddish; antennae and legs rusty brown. 



$ . 5'5 mm. Head almost exactly square ; joints of the fiagellum 

 a little more elongated than in the $ . Thorax narrower than the 

 head. Dorsum of epinotum margined, flat transversely, convex longi- 

 tudinally from end to end. Petiole as in the $ , but without the con- 

 vexity or distinct tooth beloAV. Abdomen elongate. Otherwise like 

 the ^ (including the mandibles). Head finely striate on nearly the 

 whole of the anterior portion, the large punctures stronger and more 

 abundant than in the ^ . Epinotum and nodes of petiole densely reticu- 

 late-punctate and dull ; dorsum of epinotum densely and transversely 

 striate. The abdomen and rest of thorax smooth, sides of mesonotum 

 with a few large punctures. Pilosity and colour as in the $ , but the 

 mandibles are reddish yelloAv, and the margins of the abdominal 

 segments brownish. Dealated." 

 Natal (Haviland.) 



M. minutum, Mayr. 



Verb. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 5, p. 453, £ , 1855. 



" ^ • l'5-l - 7 mm. Piceous, very shining, smooth; the mandibles, 

 the antennae, excepting the club, the articulations of the legs and the 

 tarsi yellowish. The whole body sparsely covered with erect, thick 

 hairs. The mandibles are smooth, shining, and armed with four 

 strong teeth. The clypeus, like the rest of the head, is smooth and 

 very shining. The scape of the 12- jointed antenna does not quite 

 reach back to the posterior margin of the head ; the 1st joint of the 

 fiagellum is fairly long, not greatly thickened, the following joints are 

 very small and short, the last three joints form the club, the 8th, 

 9th and 10th joints progressively larger, the terminal joint consider- 

 ably longer than the 9th and 10th together. The thorax is smooth 

 and very shining, the meso-epiiiotal suture alone is rather coarsely 

 and longitudinally striate. The nodes of the petiole and the abdo- 

 men are smooth and very shining." 



