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Genus Paracryptocerus Emery, 
subgenus Paracryptocerus Emery 
Paracryptocerus Emery, 1915, Bui. Soc. Ent. de France, 
p. 192. 
Type : Cryptocerus spinosus Mayr. By original 
designation. 
Genus Paracryptocerus Emery, 
subgenus Harnedia, new subgenus 
Harnedia is proposed for Cryptocerus of Emery, 1915, 
and subsequent authors, not of Latreille. Its type is 
umbraculatus Fabricius (1804). In 1922, Emery char- 
acterized the group and listed all the known species. 
The name Harnedia is in honor of Mr. R. W. Harned 
from whom I have received much encouragement in my 
studies of ants. 
The following descriptions of the soldier and worker 
of this new subgenus are substantially the same as given 
by Emery in 1922. 
Soldier. — Head usually longer than wide, occasionally 
similar to that of Paracryptocerus Emery except that the 
head is longer and less convex above. Tubercles near 
the posterior border of the head usually connected by a 
transverse ridge which unites with the lateral borders of 
the head forming a surface within these borders known 
as a cephalic disk; anterior border of cephalic disk with 
a median gap which exposes the mandibles and clypeus. 
Thorax very noticeably more robust than that of the 
worker and without foliaceous border as in that caste. 
Epinotum with more or less distinct spines ; exceptionally 
(■ umbraculatus Fabricius), the posterior spines of the 
epinotum are the longest. 
Worker. — Thoracic border of variable form, some- 
times spined or toothed as in Paracryptocerus Emery but 
the posterior pair of the 2 or 3 pairs of teeth on the epi- 
notum never the longest. Border of thorax sometimes 
