A Monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. 461 



P. sculpturata, Mayr. 



Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 16, p. 897, 1/, 1866. 



" If.. 9 - 5 mm. Head 3*8 mm. long, 2 - 8 mm. wide at its widest. 

 Shining, testaceous red, the head ferruginous, abdomen fusco- 

 ochraceous, legs reddish testaceous, mandibles castaneous, the anterior 

 margin of the head and the masticatory margins of the mandibles 

 blackish ; abundantly clothed with a short, yellowish pilosity, which 

 is slightly exserted on the legs. Head elongate quadrangular, deeply 

 excised behind, a little wider in the middle than in front or behind, 

 indistinctly impressed behind and below the eyes ; mandibles strongly 

 convex, shining, smooth, sparsely punctured with small piligerous 

 punctures, with some short striae at the base and near the trenchant 

 masticatory margin, obtusely bidentate in front. Clypeus with a 

 longitudinal median carina and some short striae behind, emarginate 

 iu front ; cheeks striate, coriaceous-punctate and rugulose ; the f rons 



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Fig. 29. — P. sculpturata, Mayr. 



finely but closely striate, the frontal sulcus smooth; the vertex in the 

 middle more finely and longitudinally striato-rugulose, at the sides 

 finely coriaceous -punctate and rugulose, with large, scattered and 

 shallow punctures ; thorax finely rugulose and reticulate-punctate, 

 strongly constricted between the scutellum and the epinotum ; 

 pronotum with a rounded tubercle on each side ; scutellum distinct, 

 epinotum with two erect spines, not long, shorter than the transversely 

 rugose basal portion ; petiole transversely rugose and coriaceous- 

 rugulose, the peduncle of the 1st segment low, the node a little 

 emarginate above, the 2nd segment transverse, with a subobtuse and 

 conical spine on each side which is directed outwards but hardly curved 

 backwards, furnished below anteriorly with a blunt denticle ; abdomen 

 finely coriaceous-rugulose and with some scanty piligerous punctures. 



" Caffernland " (S. E. Africa?). 



I have seen specimens of the 1/ from Pretoria and from Bothaville, 

 O.F.S., which agree with the above description in greater part, but the 

 colour is darker, especially of the abdomen, which is very dark brown, 



