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William Morton Wheeler 
Ocelli at the corners of a moderately large triangle. Mandibles small T 
subrectangular, 5-toothed, the two apical teeth largest. Clypeus 
flattened, with entire anterior border, somewhat sinuate on each side. 
In profile the clypeus and mandibles form an obliquely truncated 
anterior surface to the head, somewhat as in certain species of Colo- 
bopsis. Maxillary palpi long, 6-jointed ; labial palpi 4-jointed. Antennse 
small and short, 11-jointed, the scapes not reaching to the posterior 
border of the head, funiculi enlarged towards their tips but without 
a differentiated club; all the joints except the first and last broader 
than long, last joint longer than the two preceding joints together. 
Frontal carinse extremely short, nearly as far apart as the distance 
between each of them and the lateral border of the head, the clypeus 
not continued back between them but bounded behind by a straight 
transverse suture, very near which the antennse are inserted. Frontal 
area distinct, triangulär; frontal groove distinct but reaching only half 
way to the anterior ocellus. Thorax but little broader than the head, 
elliptical, with the mesonotum and scutellum flattened, and the epinotum 
long, depressed, sloping, without distinct base or declivity. Petiole 
thick, low and blunt. Gaster elongate elliptical, with parallel sides. 
Legs rather short and stout, with strong, simple spurs on the middle 
and hind tibise and well-developed simple claws and large empodia 
on the tarsi. Venation of wings as in (Ecophylla , without a discal cell, 
with one cubital and a closed radial cell, but with proportion ally larger 
stigma. Type Drymomyrmex fuscipennis, sp. nov. 
Drymomyrmex fuscipennis, sp. nov. 
Female (Fig. 65). Length about 7 mm; fore wing 6 mm. 
Antennal scapes curved, gradually incrassated towards their tips 
which reach a little beyond the posterior orbits; first funicular joint 
as long as the two succeding joints together; joints 2 — 5 much, joints 
6— -9 slightly, broader than long. 
Body shining, finely punctate and shagreened; cheeks and front 
also with coarse, scattered, elongate punctures; mandibles coarselv 
striatopun ctate. 
Upper surface of gaster, thorax and head together with the cly- 
peus, mandibles, palpi and antennal scapes covered with numerous short 
erect or suberect hairs; legs with shorter, more appressed and less 
conspicuous, though equally dense, pilosity. The hairs on the front 
and clypeus are especially prominent as in certain species of Camponotus 
and Colobopsis. 
