. The Biological bulletin. Biology; Zoology; Biology; Marine Biology. 184 WILLIAM M. WHEELER. Whole body covered with long, suberect, golden yellow hairs, which on the head, thorax and abdomen, arise from the umbilicate centers of the foveolte. Hairs on the terminal antennal joint very short and dense, con- trasting with the longer hairs on the scape and short joints of the funicle. Color red, edges of mandibles, clypeus, anterior border and posterior angles of head, the funicle with the exception of the terminal joint, the articulations of the thorax, legs and abdomen and the tip of the latte
. The Biological bulletin. Biology; Zoology; Biology; Marine Biology. 184 WILLIAM M. WHEELER. Whole body covered with long, suberect, golden yellow hairs, which on the head, thorax and abdomen, arise from the umbilicate centers of the foveolte. Hairs on the terminal antennal joint very short and dense, con- trasting with the longer hairs on the scape and short joints of the funicle. Color red, edges of mandibles, clypeus, anterior border and posterior angles of head, the funicle with the exception of the terminal joint, the articulations of the thorax, legs and abdomen and the tip of the latter black- ish. Legs and terminal antennal joint slightly more yellowish than the remainder of the body. Female (Fig. 2). — Length mm. Eyes moderately large, convex, situated in the middle of the lateral surface of the head, which is shaped like that of the worker. Ocelli well developed, not lying at the corners of an equilateral, but of an isosceles triangle with a long base. Pro- thorax large, scutum of mesonotum well developed, dorsally flattened, without para- psidal sutures ; tegulse large, elliptical ; no paraptera between the scutum and the well- developed, flattened scutellum, metanotum narrow but distinct ; epinotum large, shaped like that of the worker. On the pleural sur- face the mesothoracic epimerite and epi- sternum are distinct but these elements in the metapleurae are more obscurely separ- ated. There is nothing to show that the thorax has ever borne wings. Petiole longer than broad, postpetiole almost twice as broad the petiole> its posterior border nearly. FIG. 2. Cerapaehys {Parasyscia) aupnt* n. sp. Apterous female. cogxtensive wkh the edge of the first gastric segment, which is both broader and longer than this segment in the worker. Terminal gastric segments and sting in all respects like those of the worker. The sutures of the thoracic dorsum are blackened ; otherwise the female is like the worker in coloration, sculpture and pilosity. As Cerapac
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