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so far as can be seen, is very similar. The eyes are less convex. 
Only a few hairs are visible on the body and these are widely 
scattered and rather coarse. The appendages seem to be naked. 
Color black. 
Described from one specimen (B 18239 type) in the collection 
of the Geolog. Inst. Koenigsberg. 
Tribe Proceratini Emery. 
Genus Bradoponera Mayr. 
Bradoponera meieri Mayr. 
Bradoponera meieri Mayr, Beitr. Naturk. Preuss. I, 1868, p. 74, Taf. IV, Figs. 70, 71 
Ern. Andre, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, XX, 189."), p. 82. 
Bradyponera meieri Dalla Torre, Catalog. Hymen. VII. 1898, p. 18; Handlirsch, 
Foss. Insekt. 1908, p. 879. 
Worker (Fig. 4a). This phase was carefully described by Mayr 
from five specimens, at least one of which (No. 373/7659) is in the 
Geolog. Inst. Koenigsberg Coli. 
I have examined ten specimens 
from this collection (Nos. 545/9493 ; 
991/1387; 373/7659; XXB 1283; 
B 18515; XXB 1933; XXB 2165; 
and two without nnmbers), but am 
able to add little to Mayrs des- 
cription. He states tliat he was 
nnable to give a clear acconnt 
of the sculpture of the specimens 
as they were more or less covered 
with white films. I believe, ho- 
wever, that his description is, in 
the main, correct. The head is 
covered with coarse, umbilicate 
punctures, separated by very finely 
regnlose intervals. The man- 
dibles, clypeus, thorax and espe- 
cially the abdomen are more finely and densely punctate. The thorax 
is delicately rugulose and on the sides with a distinctly longitudinal trend 
to the rugulse. The scapes and legs are sparsely and coarsely punctate. 
Female (ergatoid) (Fig. 4b). Length 3,25 mm. 
A single specimen (XXB 1933) from the Geolog. Inst. Koenigsberg 
Coli, differs from the worker in having ocelli and a typical female 
Fig. 4. Bradoponera meieri Mayr. 
a) Worker, B2165; b) Female, B 1933. 
