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of the epinotum. In all my specimens the dorsum of the latter is 

 decidedly long (much longer than in tricolor, etc.), being as long as 

 wide at the base and two-thirds as long as the width of the apex at 

 the base of the spines. It is fairly flat above. The spines are quite 

 twice as long as their basal width, and not one-third, but at least half 

 as long as the interval between them. The declivity of the epinotum 

 is very slightly inclined and not at all concave. The head is 

 subcircular. 



$ . 9*8 mm. Dark castaneous red, the head and petiole a little 

 paler and redder than the thorax ; abdomen black. Head longi- 

 tudinally and closely striate, sparsely but clearly punctured, the space 

 between the frontal area and the anterior ocellus slightly shining, with 

 the sculpture effaced. The thorax in shape, sculpture and gloss 

 closely resembles that of rufonigra, but the sides of the dorsum of the 

 epinotum are more parallel. The 1st segment of the petiole has more 



Fig. 36. — C. excisa var. maledicta. 



acute anterior angles than that species. Otherwise like the 9 °f 

 rufonigra. 



C. Godfreyi, Forel. 



(As race of foraminiceps, Santschi) Bull. Soc. Vaud. Sc. Nat., vol. 50, 



p. 237, £,1914. 

 (Race of vulcania, Santschi ; Forel emend.) Rev. Suisse Zool., vol. 24, 



p. 406, 1916. 



£ . 3 mm. Dark brownish-red, with a tinge of yellow, the back 

 of the head more brown, the legs less reddish than the thorax, the 

 abdomen dark brown, becoming somewhat paler towards the base. 

 Pilosity absent except on the clypeus. Pubescence pale, fairly long, not 

 very abundant except on the abdomen, where it is adjacent (oblique on 

 the head). Head dull, very delicately and longitudinally striate or 

 aciculate, sparsely and finely punctured, the striation more or less 

 effaced in the middle of the vertex. Thorax very finely and super- 

 ficially reticulate-punctate above, fairly dull, the dorsum of the 

 epinotum with a few transverse rugae. Sides of thorax longitudinally 

 rugulose and partly reticulate-punctate. Abdomen and petiole very 

 slightly shining, the former microscopically alutaceous. Head, ex- 

 cluding the mandibles, quadrate, about as long as wide, the sides 



