. The Cambridge natural history. Zoology. 1/4 HVMENOPTERA ilany of the Ponericles have elongate mandibles, but they are inserted at the sides of the front of the head, not in the middle of the front. These organs in some species of Odontomachi serve as levers, by aid of which the Insect can execute considerable leaps. In only a few species are the males known ; Mayr and Porel state that they are destitute of the peculiar mandibles characteristic of the worker. The unique European representative of the Odontomachi, Anochetus ghiliani, occurs in Andalusia. Near Tangier Mr. George Lewis found it
. The Cambridge natural history. Zoology. 1/4 HVMENOPTERA ilany of the Ponericles have elongate mandibles, but they are inserted at the sides of the front of the head, not in the middle of the front. These organs in some species of Odontomachi serve as levers, by aid of which the Insect can execute considerable leaps. In only a few species are the males known ; Mayr and Porel state that they are destitute of the peculiar mandibles characteristic of the worker. The unique European representative of the Odontomachi, Anochetus ghiliani, occurs in Andalusia. Near Tangier Mr. George Lewis found it to be not uncommon ; but the sexes are not known, and it even appears doubt- ful whether there exists any well- marked division between workers and female. Lewis observed, among the ordinary forms, individuals with longer" bodies, usually one in a nest, and he supposed these to be females; Saun- ders, on examining these examples, found them to possess distinct ocelli, and therefore agreed with Lewis as to their being the female sex. Dr. Emery subsequently examined these same specimens, and took what is scarcely a different view, viz. that they are not females but an intermediate form; and he also expressed the jDpinion that " the true female may not ; The male of Anochetus is not known. The female of A. mayri, a JSTeotropieal species, has rudimentary wings. Sub-fam. 5. Dorylides.—Clypeus extremely small, the antennae inserted very near the front margin of the head. Hind body visually cloiujatc and suhcylindrical, with an imperfect pedicel formed hy the constriction of the hack of the first segment, hut occasioncdly there are tivo nodes in the irorhcrs. Distinctions hetiveen the two sexes, and hetiueen the workers and sexed forms, enormous, the c[ueens truly wingless. The females and uwrkers usucdly Mind, or at any rate destitute of facetted eyes. (In Ecitonini the antennae are not inserted quite at the front of the head, and there are two nodes in the ped
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