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3. Mandibles, clypeus and appendages ferrugineous 
transversa 
Mandibles, clypeus and appendages blackish brown 
var. infuscata 
Odontoponera transversa (Fred. Smith) 
0. transversa, (F. Smith), Jour. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 
Zool. Vol. 2, p. 68 (1857) worker {Ponera). 
Ponera transversa, F. Smith, Cat. Hym. Brit. Mus. 
Vol. 6, p. 86, (1858) worker. 
0. transversa, Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym. Vol. 7, p. 30 
(1893; Forel, Jour. Bombay Nat. Soc. Vol. 13, p. 314, 
Hist. (1900) worker; Bingham, Fuana Brit. India, 
Hym. Vol. 2, p. 73, f. 38, (1903) worker $ . 
Emery, Gen. Insect. Hym. Ponerinae, p. 60, (1911) 
worker $ $ . 
Ponera denticulata, F. Smith, Cat. Hym. Brit. Mus. 
Vol. 6, p. 90. f. 13, 14, (1858) $ ; Roger, Berl. Ent. 
Zeitschr. Vol. 5, p. 11, (1861) worker. 
O. denticulata, Mayr, Verh, Zool-bot. Ges. Wien, Vol. 
12, p. 717, (1882). 
There have been so many descriptions of O. transversa 
that another complete account of this easily recognized 
insect seems entirely superfluous. I shall give only those 
characteristics which are of use in distinguishing the ty- 
pical form from the other variants. 
Head and thorax piceous, the abdomen usually brown- 
ish black with the posterior borders of the segments nar- 
rowly edged with brown, rarely the entire abdomen piceous. 
Mandibles, clypeus, antennae and legs ferrugineous; coxae 
blackish brown. Long hairs moderately abundant, golden; 
pubescence whitish yellow, very sparse on the rugose por- 
tions but abundant elsewhere, particularly long and thick 
on the subpetiolar lamella. Rugae coarse, opaque or subopa- 
