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Var. schwebeli Luederwaldt. 
Acanihoponera dolo var. schwebeli Luederwaldt, Revist. Miis. 
Paul. 1918, p. 54 ^ ; German transl. Sao Paulo 1920, p. 
3 y ; Notas Myrmecologicas, Sao Paulo 1918, p. 6. 
Type locality: Alto da Serra, Sao Paulo, Brazil (E. Schwebel) 
Acanthoponera goeldii Forel. 
Acanthoponera goeldii Forel, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 56, 1912, 
p. 34 y . 
Type locality: Prov. Espiritu Santo, Brazil (Goeldi). 
Subsp. schwarzi subsp. nov. 
(Fig. 5.) 
Worker. Length 4.5 mm. 
Agreeing well with ForeFs description of the type but smaller, 
with the petiolar spine as long as the epinotal spines and ap- 
parently directed somewhat more upward. The epinotal spines 
diverge and their downward deflection is feeble. There is no 
constriction between the postpetiole and gaster. The color 
seems to be paler, being brownish yellow, the postpetiole and 
gaster lighter than the head and thorax (darker in the typical 
goeldii)^ as pale as the legs, only the overlapping posterior borders 
of the segments brown. Judging from the description of goeldii, 
the sculpture of the head, thorax and petiole is finer and more 
indistinct and the postpetiole and gaster are not aciculate, but 
very finely and superficially punctulate. Pubescence on these 
