248 Annals of the South African Museum. 



longer hairs ; the dorsum of the thorax with hairs like those on the 

 head, intermixed with a few longer ones. The abdomen has a mode- 

 rately long pilosity, without pubescence ; the legs and antennae with 

 oblique hairs. Mandibles moderately shining, sparsely punctured. 

 5-dentate. The head smooth and shining, with piligerous punctures, 

 which are as far apart as the length of the hairs. Cheeks finely 

 longitudinally striate, the frontal carinae also with a few such striae. 

 The head is distinctly longer than wide, hardly narrower in front than 

 behind. The median area of the clypeus feebly concave transversely, 

 margined at the sides by carinae which diverge in front and merge 

 into the anterior margin without ending in teeth. The scape of the 

 10-jointed antenna does not extend back as far as the posterior margin 

 of the head; the 2nd-7th joints of the flagellum wider than long. 

 the 3rd-5th only half as long as wide ; the 1st joint of the club but 

 little longer than wide; the apical joint large, a little longer than the 

 flagellum without the club. Eyes very small. Pro- and mesonotum 

 smooth and shining, with sparse piligerous punctures ; the epinotum 

 and the sides of the mesonotum finely reticulate-punctate and more or 

 less dull. The thorax is moderately constricted in front of the epi- 

 notum, the latter unarmed, the dorsum merging arcuately into the 

 declivity, which is somewhat longer. The first node of the petiole is 

 finely reticulate ; the 2nd smooth and shining, transversely ovate and 

 wider than the 1st. Abdomen smooth and shining, with very sparse 

 piligerous punctures." 



Port Elizabeth. (Dr. Brauns.) 



Tribe PHEIDOLOGETIKI, Emery. 



Three genera of this tribe are found in our region. The £ ^ and 

 $ $ are usually enormously larger than their ^ ? ■ -A- 1/ caste 

 occurs in some genera; the 1/ 1/ of the genus Aneleus, Em., have very 

 large and parallel-sided heads. 



Genus CAREBARA, Westwood. 

 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist,, vol. 6, p. 86, 1841. 



Characters. 



5 . Antennae 9-jointed, the club 2-jointed and very distinct. Eyes 

 and ocelli entirely absent. Frontal carinae very short. Thorax 

 unarmed; pro-mesonotal suture obsolete. First joint of the petiole 

 with a short peduncle ; both nodes transverse, subovate. 



$ . Antennae 10-jointed, without a distinct club. Eyes and ocelli 



