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with broad, minutely denticulate apical borders. Clypeus large. Frontal 
carinse subparallel, rather long, slightly cnrved, most prominent in front. 
Antennse rather stout, 12-jointed, the funicnli enlarged towards the tip, 
consisting of joints of subequal length, without a differentiated club. 
Thorax narrower than the head, but little narrower behind than in 
front, with sharply defined promesonotal and mesoepinotal sntnres, 
moderately constricted at the latter. Metathoracic spiraeles large, pro- 
jecting, approximated dorsally in the mesoepinotal constriction. Epino- 
tum nearly as large as the remainder of the thorax, bidentate. Petiole 
much longer than broad, slender and pednncnlate anteriorly, surmount- 
ed behind the middle by a rather high, rounded node, behind which 
it is abruptly constricted. Gaster large, oval, not over-hanging the 
petiole anteriorly. Sting very long and well-developed. Legs rather 
slender, all the tibise with feebly but distinctly pectinated spurs. 
Claws simple. 
Female (deälated). Scarcely larger than the worker and much like 
it except in the more robust thorax, larger eyes and the presence of ocelli. 
This genus is very close to the genus Aneuretus represented by 
a single species, A. simoni Emery, living in Ceylon and known only 
from the worker phase, but the head is less cordate, the eyes are much 
larger, the frontal carinae are longer and much more elevated and the 
antennse, legs and peduncle of the petiole are much less slender. 
Protaneuretus succineus sp. nov. 
Worker (Fig. 31a — c). Length 5,5 — 7 mm. 
Clypeus and mandibles feebly convex, the former apparently with 
broadly rounded, entire anterior border. Antennal scapes reaching a 
little more than halfway between the posterior orbits and the posterior 
corners of the head; joints 1 — 5 of the funiculi a little longer than 
broad: joints 6 — 10 as broad as long, terminal joint as long as the 
two preceding together. Pronotum about as long as broad : mesonotum 
small, elliptical, a little longer than broad. Epinotum with subequal 
base and declivity, the former convex and rounded, the latter flat and 
sloping. Teeth of the epinotum directed upward, not longer than broad 
at their bases, much further apart than long. Node of petiole rising 
rather abruptly from the peduncle, with flattened anterior surface, 
rounded superior and convex posterior surfaces; seen from above it is 
transverse and slightly compressed anteroposteriorly. 
Surface of body shining, smooth and sparsely punctate; meso- 
epinotal constriction, meso- and metapleurse longitudinally, basal sur- 
face of epinotum transversely rugose. 
