ANTS FROM THE OTWAY RANGES. 
Myrmecia (Promyrmecia) fulvipes Roger. 
Ent. Zeitschr., v, p. 36, 1861. 
This species is widely distributed in South Eastern Australia. 
It varies much in size and slightly in colour of the legs. One 
nest was found at Gellibrand. 
Genus AMBLYOPONE Erichson 1842. 
Amblyopone australis Erichson. 
Arch. f. Naturg. 8, p. 260, 1842 : Wheeler, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sc. 
62 (i), pp. 4-8, 1927. 
Widely distributed throughout the mountainous parts of 
Australia and Tasmania. Extending from S.W. Aust., round 
the south and east coast, to N. Queensland. It is very variable 
in size and colour. Many nests were found at Beech Forest and 
at Gellibrand, all in rotten logs. 
Subgenus Fulakora Mann 1919. 
Amblyopone ( Fulakora ) gracilis, sp. nov. 
(PI. IV, figs. 3-4.) 
Worker. — Length, 3. 5-4. 5 mm. 
Castaneous ; legs more yellowish ; anterior angles of head brown. 
Finely and densely reticulate-punctate on head, finely punctate elsewhere ; 
epinotal declivity very finely striate transversely. Mandibles longitudinally 
striate. 
Hair yellow, short and erect, sparse throughout, except on apical segments 
of gaster. Pubescence yellow, short and adpressed, abundant throughout. 
Head one-sixth longer than broad, broader in front than behind, sides 
straight, occipital border slightly concave, angles strongly rounded, anterior 
angles of sides produced as strong tooth-like projections. Mandibles long, 
narrow, sharply pointed, external border straight, inner border convex, fur- 
nished with seven large teeth, first two simple, the others bifid laterally. 
Clypeus strongly convex in front ; furnished with eight strong sharp teeth, 
the central pair joined at base. Frontal carinae short and erect, truncate and 
diverging behind, slightly overhanging the antennal insertions in front. Scapes 
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