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Ponera oculata Smith

Diagnostic Description

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Male. Length 5 lines.-Reddish-yellow: head black, with the clypeus, mouth, and antennae, reddish-yellow; the ocelli very large and projecting. Thorax oblong-ovate, with a loose, downy pubescence; wings hyaline, the nervures pale testaceous, the stigma fuscous. The scale incrassate, rounded in front and truncate behind. Abdomen oblong, with a strangulation between the first and second segments.

Hab. Australia (Macintyre River).

In the Museum Collection are two specimens of this insect; one has a short nervure emanating from the middle of the second transverso-medial nervure towards the apex of the wing; in other respects they exhibit no material difference.

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Smith, F., Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., pp. -
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Smith, F.
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