ANTS FROM THE OTWAY RANGES. 
small nests. The genus Solenopsis has not previously been 
recorded from Victoria. The subfamily Dolichoderinae is repre- 
sented by three species of Iriclomyrmex, and it is interesting to 
note that none occurred in the bush, all the nests being found 
at the side of the road or near clearings. Of the Formicinae 
the most abundant, both in species and individuals, was the 
genus Prolasius, a genus until recently supposed to be confined 
to New Zealand. This genus had not been recognised in 
Australia until the recent visit of Dr. W. M. Wheeler who 
secured a number of species over a large area. The genus 
Diodontolepis is, so far as known, confined to Victoria. A 
notable feature at Mount Sabine was the absence of any species 
of the large and widely distributed genera Myrmecia, Chal- 
coponera , and Rhytidoponera, though the two former genera 
occur abundantly at the foot of the range. 
The material from the foot of the range near Gellibrand 
was more varied. The country consists of cleared land, more 
or less open forest and sandy-heath-scrub. In the forest area 
was found a small nest of ants for which a new genus, Pseudo- 
notoncus, has been erected. The habits as well as general 
structure suggest an affinity with Notoncus. 
Family FORMICIDAE Latreille 1810. 
Subfamily Cerapachyinae Forel 1893. 
Genus EUSPHINCTUS Emery 1893. 
Eusphinctus fulvipes, sp. nov. 
(PL IV, fig. 1.) 
Worker. — Length, 3. 3-3. 8 mm. 
Chestnut-brown ; mandibles, antennae and gaster castaneous ; legs 
ochraceous. 
Mandibles, head, thorax and node densely and rather coarsely covered 
with large shallow piligerous punctures ; gaster similarly, but more finely, 
punctate ; declivity shining. 
Hair yellow, short and suberect, abundant throughout, longer than else- 
where on terminal segments of gaster. Pubescence yellow, very fine and 
adpressed. 
Head one-sixth longer than broad, as broad in front as behind, sides feebly 
convex, occipital border straight, angles broadly rounded. Mandibles short, 
triangular, abruptly bent near their base, inner border short, terminal border 
edentate, in some examples very feebly denticulate. Clypeus short and 
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