342 Annals of the South African Museum. 



schists. This area harbours not a few species, which, as far as my ex- 

 perience goes, are never to be found on the schist formation. Such are 

 the two species just described, and also Gamponotus mystaceus, Emery, 

 Acantholepis longinoda, n. sp., Meranojilus sjnninodis, n. sp., etc. 



T. Maeleyi, Forel. 

 Bull. Soc. Yaud. Sc. Nat., vol. 50, p. 221, £ , 1914. 



$ . 2 - 5-3 mm. Brown, the abdomen darker, the legs brown, the 

 antennae, mandibles, and tarsi ferruginous. Densely clothed with a 

 white pilosity, not very long, consisting of hairs divided into 3, 4, or 

 more branches. The pilosity is less abundant on the legs and scapes. 

 Head, thorax, and 1st node closely reticulate, the rugae on the head 

 emphasised longitudinally. The spaces between the reticulations 

 feebly shining. Abdomen smooth and shining, very sparsely and 

 finely punctured, except near the base, which is more strongly punc- 

 tured. Second node of petiole only with large and shallow punctures. 



Head, excluding the mandibles, as long as wide, or with the man- 

 dibles as long as the thorax, only a little narrower in front than 

 behind. The antennal scrobe is almost obsolete. The scapes do not 

 extend back quite as far as the occipital margin. Anterior margin of 

 the clypeus straight or feebly convex. Mandibles sharply striated, 

 finely and sparsely punctured, with three distinct teeth in front. 

 Eyes large, convex, placed in the middle of the sides of the head. 

 Thorax not very convex transversely, more so longitudinally, the 

 anterior angles rounded, the anterior face less convex than in Gon- 

 stanciae. The thorax is slightly constricted between the meso- and 

 epinotal regions, twice as wide across the shoulders of the pronotum as 

 it is between the epinotal spines. The latter are short, very little 

 longer than they are wide at the base. Peduncle of the petiole half as 

 long as its node. The latter is distinctly higher than the 2nd, the 

 sides and the anterior dorsal margin convex, the posterior margin and 

 face straight, nearly twice as wide as long ; the dorsal surface convex 

 transversely. The 2nd node is almost three times wider than long, 

 one-third wider than the 1st node, the posterior margin more convex 

 than the anterior. All the femora moderately swollen in the middle. 



Durban and Krantz Kloof, Natal (H. W. Marley). (S.A.M., R.M., 

 G.A. colls.) 



This species differs from all the others in our region by the very 

 wide 2nd node. 



