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mon wealth. Emery gives the length of the type specimen as 
2.75 mm. My specimens are somewhat larger (3.2 mm.) and 
Forel’s measured 3-3.2 mm. The petiole when viewed from 
above is decidedly broader than long, the postpetiole and gaster 
are decidedly shining, the former densely punctate, with super- 
Fig. 2. Acanthoponera {Anacanlhoponera) imbdlis Emery, worker, a, head from above 
h, thorax and abdomen in profile. 
imposed, scattered, larger punctures, or foveolae, which have 
sharp anterior borders so that they are somewhat ‘^eingestochen”, 
to use a German expression. The color appears to be rather 
variable, the gaster being sometimes dark brown like the head 
or like both the head and thorax, sometimes paler brown with 
only the head dark. 
Var. hilar is For el. 
Ectatomma {Acanthoponera) Enbellis var. hilare Forel, Ann. Soc. 
Belg. 39, 1895, p. 421 ^ . 
Acanthoponera imbellis var. hilaris Emery, Gen. Insect. Ponerinse 
1911, p. 10 ^ . 
According to Forel, this variety, taken at Mackay, Queens- 
land (Gilbert Turner), is larger than the type (3.6 mm.) and 
differs in sculpture as follows: ‘‘Abdomen densely punctate and 
subopaque. All the remainder densely and finely reticulate- 
punctate and opaque. Moreover, the front is coarsely longi- 
tudinally rugose, while the other portions of the head, the thorax 
