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Var. akeolata, Forel. 

 Sitzb. k. Bayer Akad. Wissensch., p. 269, % , $ , 1911. 



" 1/ . 8 mm. Head 3 mm. long and 2 - 6-2"7 mm. wide. Clypeus 

 barely emarginate, indistinctly carinate. Sides of head straighter 

 than in the type-species. Head very little narrowed behind ; a large, 

 superficial network occurs over more than the posterior half of the 

 head, in addition to the fine reticulate-punctate sculpture. Otherwise 

 like the type- species. 



" ^ • 2 - 8 mm. Head somewhat narrowed posteriorly, with a more 

 distinct posterior margin and less convex sides than in the type- 

 species, also very distinctly longer than wide. 



"Bothaville, O.F.S. (Dr. H. Brauns)." 



Race Berthoudi, Forel. 



Mitth. Schweiz. Ent. G-es., vol. 9, p. 89, 1/, £', 1894. 



" 1/ . 5'3-6 mm. Head, excluding the mandibles, 27 mm. long 

 and 2 - l mm. wide, a little wider in front than behind, nearly parallel- 

 sided. Mandibles smooth, shining, very sparsely punctured, striate 

 externally at the base. Clypeus very short, carinate, widely emarginate 

 in the middle. Frontal carinae short, very divergent, ending in front 

 of the anterior fourth of the head. Eyes small. Directed outwards, 

 the vei*y short scape hardly extends beyond the anterior corner of the 

 head. Head deeply and narrowly excised behind, the excision being 

 continued into the occipito-frontal stilcus. Pronotum with two blunt 

 bosses above and below. Mesonotum with a weak transverse torus. 

 Epinotum not marginate, armed with two long, thin, nearly vertical 

 and strongly divergent spines, which are nearly as long as the dorsum 

 of the epinotum. First segment of the petiole with a long peduncle, 

 the node feebly emarginate above. Second segment wider than long, 

 produced at the sides into two very long teeth or blunt spines. Legs 

 fairly long. Head dull or with a slight gloss, very finely reticulate- 

 punctate, also more coarsely striate longitudinally over the anterior 

 two-thirds, the posterior third closely aud transversely striate, under- 

 neath only reticulate and shining. Thorax slightly shining, finely 

 reticulate and irregularly rugose, transversely so in front ; epinotum 

 reticulate-punctate only. Petiole and 1st abdominal segment reticu- 

 late, the rest of the abdomen smooth. Legs smooth and sparsely 

 punctured. Pilosity moderately abundant except on the head and 

 legs, very short, oblique, yellowish, and not quite decumbent. Tibiae 

 and scapes without exserted hairs, the latter sparse on the body. 



