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Psyche 
[ M!arch 
Single soldier and female specimens taken by Dr. F. X. 
Williams as Los Banos, Luzon Island, Philippines. 
This species is very close to Z. wheeleri described and 
figured by Dr. W. M. Mann in the present issue of “Psyche” 
from soldiers received from Samoa by the Federal Quaran- 
tine Station in Honolulu. This species, however, has 5- 
toothed mandibles and the funicular joints 2-10 are dis- 
tinctly broader than long as in Z. annandalei. As I am not 
certain that the two specimens collected by Dr. Williams 
are from the same colony, only the soldier is to be regarded 
as the type. 
Acantholepis aurea Karawajew subsp. pimctaticeps 
subsp. nov. 
Worker. Length 2 mm. 
Head subtrapezoidal, slightly longer than broad, dis- 
tinctly narrowed anteriorly, with feebly convex sides and 
posterior border and rounded posterior corners. Eyes at 
the middle of the sides of the head, moderately convex, as 
long as their distance from its anterior corners. Mandibles 
convex, with 5 subequal teeth. Clypeus convex, carinate, 
with broadly rounded, projecting anterior border. Frontal 
area obsolescent; frontal groove distinct anteriorly. An- 
tennal scapes extending about one-fourth their length be- 
yond the posterior border of the head. Pronotum with 
rounded humeri and convex sides and dorsal surface, de- 
cidedly broader than long; mesonotum transversely subel- 
liptical, one and one-third times as broad as long; metano- 
tum about two-thirds as broad as the pronotum, with prom- 
inent, dorsally projecting spiracles; the mesometanotal im- 
pression short but pronounced; epinotum somewhat nar- 
rower than the pronotum, subrectangular, the base on each 
side with a pair of stout longitudinal projections which 
terminate posteriorly in very blunt teeth bearing the epin- 
otal spiracles at their tips. Petiolar scale thin, its summit 
acute and almost semicircularly excised, so that its corners 
from two blunt, flattened teeth which are about twice as 
long as broad at their bases, its sides and anterior surface 
somewhat convex. There is no peduncle-like prolongation 
behind the node. 
