. Hymenoptera ... concave ; apicalportion excavate. a. Tibiaj of legs spinous beneath. a. Length G-10 mm.; node of pedicel thick, globose C. sericeKS, p. 37G. b. Length 3-4 mm.; node of jiedicel broader than long, somewhat nat . (. carians, ]>. 377. b. Tibiae of legs not spinous beneatli C. nirvaixc*. p. 377. 401. Camponotus compressus, Fabr. (Formica), Mant. Ins. i (1787),p. 3G7, V : ?^i^il (Formica), Cat. vi (1858), p. 13, ^ 6 ?Camponotus maculatus, Fabr., race compressus {Fabr.), Forel, N. JI. Sue. vii ^892), pp. 229 Si 240. 5 maj. Black, opaque, very finely and deiiselv retic


. Hymenoptera ... concave ; apicalportion excavate. a. Tibiaj of legs spinous beneath. a. Length G-10 mm.; node of pedicel thick, globose C. sericeKS, p. 37G. b. Length 3-4 mm.; node of jiedicel broader than long, somewhat nat . (. carians, ]>. 377. b. Tibiae of legs not spinous beneatli C. nirvaixc*. p. 377. 401. Camponotus compressus, Fabr. (Formica), Mant. Ins. i (1787),p. 3G7, V : ?^i^il (Formica), Cat. vi (1858), p. 13, ^ 6 ?Camponotus maculatus, Fabr., race compressus {Fabr.), Forel, N. JI. Sue. vii ^892), pp. 229 Si 240. 5 maj. Black, opaque, very finely and deiiselv reticiilate- * C. luteiis and , p. 379, are omitted from this key, the workersbeing unknown. 352 roEMiciDiE. punctate, the pedicel and base of abdomen sometimes shining,the posterior margins of the abdominal segments narrowlytestaceous, mandibles, flagellum of the antennte and legs cas-tantous brown or rid, rarel)^ black ; pubescence sparse, erect,often wanting on the head and thorax. Head triangular, very. Fig. 109.—Camponotus , ^ maj. a. Head. broad posteriorly, lateral occipital angles prominent ; mandibleswith 7 teeth ; clypeus medially vertically carinate, the middleportion anteriorly ivctangularly produced into a lobe ; scape ofantennae cylindrical; eyes comparatively small, frontal ratherthan lateral. Thorax narrower than the head, anteriorly pro-duced into a collar ; legs long, tibite compressed of pedicel oval, transverse, convex in front, flat posteriorly ;abdomen comparatively broad and massive. ^ min. Similar, smaller and more slender; head elongate, pro-duced and narrowed posteriori}-, the sides of the head straight notconvex ; mandibles with 5 teeth. 5 . Resembles the ^ maj., but the head is not so large inproportion, and its lateral occipital angles not so prominent;mesonotum gibbous in front, flat or very lightly convex above. S . Somewhat similar to the $ ; head \evy small, subtriangular,mesonotum and scutellum gibbous ; node o


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