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front, behind which the dorsal profile of the thorax is straight and 

 without any emargination. Pro-mesonotal suture indistinct. Meso- 

 epinotal suture very clearly defined. Dorsum of the epinotum 

 distinctly marginate, about one and one-third times longer than 

 wide, a little wider behiud. Epinotal teeth short, about as long as 

 two-thirds of the interval between them. Declivity of the epinotum 

 with a feeble translucent band on each side. Both nodes wider than 

 long, the 2nd twice as wide as the 1st, the latter shorter than its 

 peduncle. There is a ribbon of spongy tissue below the 1st segment 

 of the petiole, and a mass of the same tissue around the ventral 

 projection of the 2nd node. There is very little of it above and 

 behind the nodes. Legs fairly long and thin. Sides of thorax, 2nd 

 node, and abdomen smooth ; the latter almost without basal striae. 

 Head dull, densely reticulate-punctate. All the rest very finely 

 reticulate, at the most only slightly shining, in part dull. On the 

 dorsum of the thorax the meshes are partly converted into longi- 

 tudinal rugae. On the body there is a scanty pilosity composed of 

 very short clavate hairs. There is also a row of such hairs on the 

 anterior margins of the clypeus and scapes, and along the sides of 

 the frontal carinae. Similar clavate hairs, shining and decumbent, 

 are plentiful on the head, scanty on the rest of the body. In 

 addition, there is a fine adpressed pubescence on the body and the 

 limbs, the latter without outstanding pilosity. Rusty yellowish-red. 

 The vertex and a cloudy transverse band on the abdomen yellowish- 

 brown." 



" Natal, 5300 ft. (Haviland)." 



Eace Marleyi, Arnold. 

 Proc. Rhod. Sc. Assn., vol. 13, part 3, p. 31, $ , 1914. 



^ . 2 6 mm. Differs from the type of the species as follows : 

 The mandibles are shorter, much less than half as long as the head. 

 The head, measured from the anterior margin of the clypeus to the 

 apices of the posterior angles, is two and a half times as long as 

 the mandibles. The last joint of the flagellum is not longer than 

 the rest of the flagellum. The dorsum of the epinotum is slightly 

 shining, wider than long. The sides of the thorax are not smooth as 

 in the type species, but distinctly reticulate-punctate and dull. The 

 base of the abdomen distinctly striate at the sides, the striations 

 covering a fan-shaped area. Otherwise like the type. 



Durban. Two specimens in a nest of Pheidole punctulata (H. B. 

 Maidey) ; type in my collection. 



