228 MTTTILLIDJE. 



METHOCA. 



1. Methoca nigriceps. 



Female. Length 4 lines. — Ferruginous, with the head and four 

 fasciae on the abdomen black. The clypeus, mandibles, and antennae 

 ferruginous ; the head smooth and shining, with fine distant punc- 

 tures. The thorax smooth and shining ; the tibiae and tarsi finely 

 spinose. Abdomen very smooth and shining ; the second and 

 third segments with a broad black fascia near to their apical mar- 

 gins ; the fasciae are broadest in the middle and taper to a point 

 laterally, but do not extend to the lateral margins ; the fasciae on 

 the third and fourth segments are at their basal margins. 



Hah. Brazil (?). 



Obtained from Mr. "W. Shuckard, by exchange, the locality being 

 uncertain. 



2. Methoca constricta. 



Male. Length 3| lines. — Black, the abdomen shining, the segments 

 deeply constricted. The antennae obscurely fulvous beneath, above 

 fuscous ; the mandibles ferruginous ; the face closely punctured, 

 the vertex shining and less closely so. The prothorax closely 

 punctured, the mesothorax and scutellum more strongly so ; the 

 metathorax coarsely punctured ; wings hyaline and iridescent, the 

 nervures and stigma rufo-testaceous ; legs dark rufo-piceous, with 

 the articulations and the tarsi, as well as the anterior tibiae, rufo- 

 testaceous. The margins of the segments of the abdomen with a 

 thin hoary pile ; beneath, there is an impressed longitudinal line 

 in the middle of each segment. 



Hah. Ega. 



PONERIDiE, Smith. 



LEPTOGENYS, Eoger. 



1. Leptogenys insularis. 



Worker. Length 3| lines. — Opaque black, and thinly covered with 

 ashy pile. Head widest anteriorly ; the eyes ovate, placed forwards 

 at the sides near the base of the mandibles, which are falcate and 

 pointed at their apex, which is ferruginous ; the flagellum of the 

 antennae rufo-testaceous, obscurely so above ; the clypeus produced ; 

 the antennae inserted at the sides of a prominence above the cly- 

 peus. Thorax oblong, compressed from the prothorax to the apex 

 of the metathorax : the tarsi more or less rufo-testaceous. Abdo- 



