NEW AUSTRALIAN ANTS. 
on sides ; a slight constriction between postpetiole and first segment of gaster„ 
the latter broader than long, as broad in front as behind, sides strongly convex. 
Legs long and slender. 
Habitat . — Tasmania : Hobart (A. M. Lea). 
Redescribed from a single example, one of the type series, 
recently received from Dr. W. M. Wheeler. 
This species should be regarded as the genotype in place of 
E . dentinodis Clark. 
Eubothroponera reticulata , sp. nov. 
(PI. II, fig. 16 .) 
Worker. — Length, 4.8 mm. 
Head and thorax chocolate brown ; base of gaster black ; apex and node 
ferruginous ; mandibles, antennae and legs castaneous. 
Opaque. Mandibles finely and densely punctate. Head and thorax finely 
and densely reticulate and with numerous large, shallow punctures. Node 
more coarsely punctate-reticulate. Gaster finely and densely punctate. 
Antennae and legs microscopically punctate. 
Hairs yellow, short and erect, moderately abundant throughout. Pubescence 
yellow, very fine and adpressed, abundant throughout. 
Head one-fifth longer than broad, sides convex, occipital border straight 
or feebly convex. Mandibles triangular, edentate, apex sharp. Clypeus 
produced and convex in front, short and abruptly raised to level of frontal 
carinae, the latter lobe-like, shghtly raised outwardly, almost hiding the 
antennal insertions. Scapes extending beyond occipital border by fully their 
thickness : first segment of funiculus longer than second, second and third 
longer than broad, fourth to tenth as broad as long, apical barely twice as 
long as broad. Eyes large and convex, placed at middle of sides. Thorax 
barely twice as long as broad ; pro-mesonotal suture sharply defined, meso- 
epinotal suture not indicated. Pronotum barely one-third broader longer 
than broad, sides feebly convex. Posterior border of epinotum concave and 
feebly margined ; in profile strongly convex longitudinally, pro-mesonotal 
suture strongly indented, declivity straight, sides sharply margined. Node 
one-third broader than long, broader behind than in front, sides and anterior 
border straight or feebly convex, angles rounded, posterior border straight 
with a short broad sharp tooth in middle projecting backward, dorsum feebly 
convex, with faint indications of a central carina ; in profile one-fourth higher 
than long, anterior face straight and rounded into dorsum which is higher 
behind, posterior face straight, ventral surface convex with a short blunt 
tooth behind directed backward. Postpetiole one and one-half times broader 
than long, sides and anterior border feebly convex. A strong constriction 
between gaster and postpetiole. First segment of gaster as long as broad,, 
sides convex. Legs long and slender. 
Habitat . — N.S. Wales : Sutherland (Dr. W. M. Wheeler, Sept. 16, 1914). 
Near E. dentinodis Clark. 
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