. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. 412 Bulletin Museum of Comparative Zoology, Vol. 157, No. 6. Figure 93. Showing that the worl<er of Pristomyrmex punctatus (F. Smith) has a more or less depressed dorsum of alitrunl<. present, respectively, bilaterally on the dorsums of petiole node and postpetiole, of which usually a pair shorter and the oth- er pair longer. First gastral tergite lacking erect or suberect hairs. A few pairs of long, foiAvard-projecting hairs present near the anterior clypeal margin that are symmet- rical on the two sides of the
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. 412 Bulletin Museum of Comparative Zoology, Vol. 157, No. 6. Figure 93. Showing that the worl<er of Pristomyrmex punctatus (F. Smith) has a more or less depressed dorsum of alitrunl<. present, respectively, bilaterally on the dorsums of petiole node and postpetiole, of which usually a pair shorter and the oth- er pair longer. First gastral tergite lacking erect or suberect hairs. A few pairs of long, foiAvard-projecting hairs present near the anterior clypeal margin that are symmet- rical on the two sides of the midpoint. Scapes and tibiae with numerous erect to suberect short hairs. Color reddish-brown, but sometimes the gaster much darker or the appendages slightly lighter. Ergatoid Queen. TL , ; HL , ; HW , ; CI 107, 109; SL , ; SI 97, 97; EL , ; PW , ; AL , ; PPW , ; PPL , ; PPI 133, 135 (n = 2). Closely resembling the worker in the structure of mandibles, clypeus, petiole, postpetiole and gaster and also in sculp- ture, color, and pilosity. But the head with three ocelli; eyes larger; pronotum and propodeum narrower than those of work- er; mesonotum more convex; an impres- sion present at the approximate positions of promesonotal suture and of metanotal groove, respectively; propodeal spines stronger than in worker. Wing absent, but the rudimentaiy vestige of a wing is pres- ent on the each lateral margin of the me- sonotum. Queen. Unknown. Male. TL , HL , HW , CI 95, SL , SI 32, HWE , EL , PW , AL , PPW , PPL , PPI 153 {n = 1; one specimen [MCZC] collected from Nara, Japan, by Silvestri on July 21, 1925, was examined). Head, including the eyes, broader than long. Clypeus transverse, with a median short carina. Frontal area with a median longitudinal carina. Frontal carinae short, slightly beyond the posterior margins of antennal sockets. Palp formula 5,3. On the mesosc
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