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of the declivity much reduced and less distinct. For the 
rest, the sculpture is quite similar to that of taivanensis , 
but throughout lower and less distinct, especially of the 
dorsum of the thorax and first gastric segment. 
Pilosity slightly shorter, more delicate and more abun- 
dant than in taivanensis. Color deep reddish ferrugine- 
ous, the node of the petiole slightly infuscated, antennae 
and mandibles lighter, legs still lighter and more yel- 
lowish. 
Holotype worker. — Taken near Chao Kung Mountain, 
west of Kuanhsien, Szechuan Province, China, Sept. 4, 
1945. (W. L. Brown, Jr.) Type to be deposited in the 
Museum of Comparative Zoology. 
Paratype worker. — One specimen. Total length ex- 
cluding mandibles, 4.8 mm. Cephalic index, 92. Length 
of thorax, Weber’s measurement, 1.7 mm. Otherwise 
quite similiar. This specimen collected with the holotype 
to be deposited in the U. S. National Museum. 
This species is presumably different from hinghami 
Forel, of which I have not seen specimens, in the size of 
the eyes, in sculpture, and in the shape of the petiole. 
Binghami is from Lower Burma, taivanensis from 
Formosa. 
Stictoponera menadensis subsp. minor Forel 
This form has been listed as a variety of subsp. bicolor 
Emery, from which it differs so markedly in color, if the 
specimen from Dong Mo, Indo-China is any criterion, that 
it should be regarded at the very least as of subspecific 
rank. This specimen, collected by Silvestri and now in 
the Wheeler Collection at the Museum of Comparative 
Zoology, is similar to bicolor in size and sculpture, but 
is a very light tannish-yellow in color, the gaster very 
slightly darker. The first funicular joint is more slender 
than in the Wheeler Collection specimens of menadensis 
Mayr or its subsp. bicolor. 
Another series of workers from Borneo in the Wheeler 
collection are large for Stictoponera, ferrugineous red, 
and have the second gastric segment strongly costate. 
The genus is in such confusion that I am afraid of de- 
scribing them as new without reliable examples of costata 
Emery, to which they are probably most closely related. 
