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Willey & Brown — Genus Myopias 
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pubescence over most of the dorsum; scapes and legs with similar 
pubescence, directed apicad. Color bright to deep brownish-red; 
mandibles and appendages lighter, more yellowish. 
Holotype (MCZ) a worker from a uninidal series of 7 workers 
and a queen from the Cuernos Mts., near Dumaguete, Negros, Philip- 
pine Islands (Chapman). Paratype workers from the same colony 
(MCZ, BMNH). 
Queen, dealate: slightly larger than the worker. Flight sclerites 
and wing stumps well developed. Petiolar nodes slightly broader 
than long as seen from above. Mesonotum and propodeum sha- 
greened (finely reticulate) above and with scattered coarse punc- 
tures. Ocelli small. Compound eyes large; maximum diameter ca. 
1/5 the full head length (HL). 
Myopias nops new species 
(Figs. 9, 28) 
Diagnosis, worker: A modest-sized, depigmented (dull yellowish) 
species without eyes; sculpture opaque, predominantly densely 
reticulate-punctulate over head, trunk, node and first gastric seg- 
ment. Mandibles short and stout, with basal angle distinct, but 
rounded and close to submedian tooth. Median clypeal lobe dis- 
tinct, short with subacute free corners and indented apical margin. 
Antennal scapes just reaching posterior border of head. Petiolar 
node thick, but tapered apicad, its sternal keel ending behind in an 
abrupt angle, paired bilaterally as in Ponera. 
Worker, holotype: TL 4.4, HL 0.85, HW 0.77 (Cl 91), ML 0.42 
(Ml 49), MLO 0.59, SL 0.65 (SI 84), WL 1.30, petiole L 0.45, hind 
femur L 0.65, hind tibia L 0.64 mm. 
The two paratype workers, both dismembered, hardly differ from 
the holotype by more than the usual error of measurement in the 
standard dimensions. Since the three specimens of the type series are 
all incomplete (one lacking head, another without gaster, various 
legs missing, sculpture in part obscured on holotype), the descrip- 
tion is composite. 
Head oblong with nearly parallel, weakly convex sides, greatest 
width a little way anterior to midlength; posterior corners rounded; 
posterior border straight in full-face view, or perhaps just the slight- 
est bit concave. Median frontal sulcus broad but short, not reaching 
back to mid-HL. Eyes obsolete, or at least unpigmented and not 
