28 
Psyche 
[February 
Length: 2.7 mm. 
Color: head, thorax and abdomen brownish black; antennae 
and legs very pale, almost transparent in fresh specimens. 
Head rugulose with numerous erect hairs. Thorax feebly 
rugulose, somewhat glabrous, and with fewer hairs. Abdomen 
glabrous with sparse erect hairs. Antennae 12-jointed. Funi- 
culus without a distinct club but the joints gradually increasing 
in diameter towards the tip. First funicular joint pyriform, 
much broader than those immediately succeeding it. Second 
and third funicular joints cylindrical and distinctly shorter than 
the adjacent joints. The following joints sub-oval and grad- 
ually increasing in length towards the tip. Scape one quarter 
the length of the funiculus. Scape and funiculus clothed with a 
short erect pubescence. Antennal scrobes much shallower than 
in female and worker, but distinct. Mandibles long and narrow, 
feebly toothed and sharply mucronate at the tip. Neck long 
and flattened dorso-ventrally. 
Anterior face of mesonotum abruptly projecting above 
pronotum. Mayrian furrows strongly impressed at the pro- 
mesonotal suture, but becoming feeble at their point of con- 
fluence. Fore wings with a short open radial cell. Hind wings 
veinless except for faint impressions at the base of the wing. 
Epinotum unarmed. Second node of petiole without ventral 
tooth, squamiform, broader and less constricted behind than in 
worker. Petiolar hairs sparse. 
Literature. 
Adlerz, Gottfrid 
1896. Myrmecologiska Studier. III. Tomognathus sub- 
Icevis. Bihang Till K. Svenska Vet. Akad. Handlingar. 
Band 21, Aft. IV No. 4, pp. 3-76. 
Sturtevant, A. H. 
1925. Notes on the Ant Fauna of Oak Galls in the Woods 
Hole. Psyche vol. 32, pp. 313-314. 
Viehmeyer, H. 
1906. Beitrage zur Ameisenfauna des Konigreiches Sachsen. 
Abhandl. naturwiss. Gesell. Isis, Dresden, pp. 55-69. 
