
No. 425. THE TEXAN LEGIONARY ANTS. 
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the disk, without any pits or grooves. Wings hyaline, reaching considerably 
beyond the tip of abdomen, strongly fringed. Metathorax pubescent, dark 
rufous. Petiole and all the coxz and trochanters saturate yellow, the former 
white pubescent. Femora and tibie strongly clavate, the swollen part pice- 
ous, becoming concolorous with the coxz at the bases ; tarsi slender, fus- 
cous, darker at the tips. Abdomen highly polished, as long as head and 
thorax together, and conically pointed at the tip. Second segment reaching 
to a little beyond the middle of abdomen; third and fourth segments very 
short; fifth long and pointed, beset with a few stout white hairs. 
Described from a female specimen collected in a nest of 
Eciton cecum Latr., near Austin, Texas, during March, 1901. 
I have placed this species in the genus Phzenopria because of 
the form of the scutellum, although it resembles species of the 
genus Tropidopria in the form of the abdomen. 
PHORID/E. 
Acontistoptera gen. nov. 
Head very broad, more than one and one-half times as wide as thorax 
at widest portion, widest at the front angles; half as long as wide ; seen 
from above regularly arcuate in front, concave behind ; front angles sharp, 
hind ones broadly rounded. Epistoma projecting slightly and visible from 
above as a narrow band extending between the antennae. Eyes smaller than 
‘in Ecitomyia, oval, their longest axis equal to diameter of large antennal 
joint Upper surface of head with a pair of small median macrochætæ, 
eight marginal ones on lateral and posterior edges, one over each eye, a 
bunch at front angles, and a regular series of closely placed ones along the 
front between the antennæ. Antennæ of the usual form, with an apical arista. 
Palpi projecting, of the usual form. Head seen from the side higher than 
long; front long, but slightly descending, rather acutely prolonged over the 
deep antennal cavity. Mentum very large, bristly along the front margin, 
and bearing several discal macrochete. Eyes very small, ‘contiguous with 
front margin of the head below the middle of the antennal cavity ; omma- 
tidia hemispherical, few in number. Sides of head with a few macrochete 
below and behind the eye and a series of marginal ones from front edge to 
middle of lower margin. oe 
Thorax small; when seen from above, much narrower than the head and 
owing to the narrowness of the dorsum. Dorsum with a pair of very long, 
‘stout macrochztz at the anterior angles and a shorter pair directly posterior 
| these. A pair of anterior, closely approximated, small discal macrochete ; 
