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Psyche 
[March 
produced as an entire, rounded lobe. Mandibles small, 
slender, edentate, subspatulate. Frontal area very small, 
triangular; antennse short and slender, 11-jointed; scapes 
cylindrical, nearly as long as the four basal funicular joints 
together; first funicular joint swollen, ellipsoidal, one and 
one-half times as long as broad, remainder of funiculus 
tapering, joints 2-9 subequal, about one and one-half times 
as long as broad, terminal joint narrower, as long as the 
two penultimate joints together. Palpi long, maxillary pair 
6- jointed, labial pair 4- jointed. Thorax broad and robust 
anteriorly, gradually narrowed behind, the pronotum short, 
with raised posterior border ; mesonotum broader than 
long, broader than the head, strongly convex in front and 
somewhat overhanging the pronotum. Scutellum large, but 
not very convex. Epinotum small, narrower behind than in 
front, with rather flat, sloping dorsal surface, without dif- 
ferentiated base and declivity. Petiole resembling that of 
the female, nearly as long as broad, subrectangular from 
above, in profile with a thick, broadly and evenly rounded 
node, and feebly concave ventral surface. Gaster small, 
slender and elongate ; cerci present ; genital appendages ex- 
serted, the stipites small, spreading, subtriangular, acutely 
pointed and pilose, the volsellse slender, falcate and 
deflected ; sagittse much larger, longer than broad, parallel- 
sided, with truncated tips. Legs slender; hind femora 
slightly bowed ; tarsal claws large. 
Smooth and shining, very indistinctly and finely sha- 
greened. 
Pilosity white, delicate, almost absent on the head and 
thorax ; erect and more abundant on the petiole and gaster, 
especially on the former; appendages with sparse, ap- 
pressed pubescence ; funiculi with short oblique hairs. 
Sordid or brownish yellow ; head dark brown ; mesonotum 
and scutellum pale brown. Wings yellowish hyaline, with 
pale yellow veins and pale brown pterostigma. 
Described from a series of 43 workers, a single female 
and single male, all from the same colony, captured by 
Dr. J. W. Chapman at Dumaguete, Negros Oriental, P. I. 
A study of the male of this ant has led me to reverse 
my opinion in regard to the specimen which Mayr regarded 
as the male of his G. hoernesi from the Baltic Amber. Apart 
