. Hymenoptera ... , Myrmoteras binghami, Ford, Jour. li<,mh. \. ll. Soc. viii (18!)4), ]<), V. ^. Bright reddish brown, highly polished and shining; antennaeand legs yellowish brown, mandibles yellow. Pilosity very sparse,confined to a few scattered erect solt pale hairs, pubescence curved inwards at apex into an acute long tooth, armed. Fig. ^b.~M!; hhiijliami, ^. ,i. I load . h. Mandible. ?on the inner margin with altogether 11 teeth, of \\hich the apicaland three or four sul)apical are long and acute ; of the minuteteeth two are preapical, lying between t
. Hymenoptera ... , Myrmoteras binghami, Ford, Jour. li<,mh. \. ll. Soc. viii (18!)4), ]<), V. ^. Bright reddish brown, highly polished and shining; antennaeand legs yellowish brown, mandibles yellow. Pilosity very sparse,confined to a few scattered erect solt pale hairs, pubescence curved inwards at apex into an acute long tooth, armed. Fig. ^b.~M!; hhiijliami, ^. ,i. I load . h. Mandible. ?on the inner margin with altogether 11 teeth, of \\hich the apicaland three or four sul)apical are long and acute ; of the minuteteeth two are preapical, lying between the 1st and 2nd long tooth,and the rest towards the base. For the rest the characters ofthe genus. L/nf/th, ^ 7 mm., including the mandibles ; mandibles 2 mm. Ilab. Thaungyin Valley, Tenasserim. Dr. Forel considers that the enormous size of the eyes marksthis species as probably a tree-ant. Geniis ACANTHOLEPIS. l[ypoclinia, pt., Mayr, Verh. Vcr. IFicn, v (185-5), p. o77, ^ .Acantholepis, JIai/r, Eur. Form. 18G1, p. 42, (^ $. Type, A. frauenfeldi, Mayr, from Europe. Ramie. Pala)arctic, Etiiiopian, and Indo-Malayan regions. ^. Head without the mandibles quadrangular, somewhatrounded above, the occiput not emarginate ; mandibles with themasticatory margin oblique, dentate; cly]jeus broad and high,shar])ly carinatc down the middle, dypeal and a
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