. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history; Natuurlijke historie; Sociale geschiedenis; Culturele antropologie. A Monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. 225 Tribe PSEUDOMYKMINI. Page 173, line 19, for " 13-jointed " read " ; Tribe OCYMYRMICINI. OCYMYRMEX PlOARDI, Forel. Taken at Sawmills, Umgusa Eiver, S. Rhodesia. The nest was placed under the roots of a bush and contained hundreds of ^^. (, , colls.^ Tribe CARDIOCONDYLINI. Cardiocondyla badonei, n. sp. ^, 2-2-3 mm. Black or very dark brown,
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history; Natuurlijke historie; Sociale geschiedenis; Culturele antropologie. A Monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. 225 Tribe PSEUDOMYKMINI. Page 173, line 19, for " 13-jointed " read " ; Tribe OCYMYRMICINI. OCYMYRMEX PlOARDI, Forel. Taken at Sawmills, Umgusa Eiver, S. Rhodesia. The nest was placed under the roots of a bush and contained hundreds of ^^. (, , colls.^ Tribe CARDIOCONDYLINI. Cardiocondyla badonei, n. sp. ^, 2-2-3 mm. Black or very dark brown, the thorax and petiole sometimes reddish brown, legs and antennae pale burnt-umber brown, the club of the flagellum and the middle of all the femora a little darker. Abdomen smooth and shin- ing ; head, thorax and petiole slightly glossy. Head finely reticulate, more widely and more distinctly than in C. Emeryi, Forel; thorax reticulate- --^r^y^y-r^~~-\ punctate, very closely and superficially y>--;x-<,^<^ so above, more strongly at the sides. ^^^- 64- Petiole and legs very superficially reticulate. Declivity of the epinotum smooth and shining. A very fine, short and decumbent pubescence present all over. Head relatively wider than in G. Emeryi, very little more than one- fourth longer than wide, slightly wider in front than behind, the sides straight, the posterior margin shallowly concave. Clypeus longitudi- nally striate in the middle, produced in front as a ledge which projects beyond the bases of the mandibles (as in C. Emeryi). The scapes fall short of the hind margin of the head by as much as the length of the 1st joint of the flagellum ; the latter is as long as the 3 succeeding joints taken together, the 2nd-8th joints wider than long. Eyes placed in the middle of the sides of the head. Mandibles shining, sparsely punctured, striated at the base, quadridentate. Promesonotum a little longer than wide in front, its anterior corners more rounded than in C. Emery
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