8. Typhlopone serratula ^HNS.

Worker. Length 2 - 2 1/4 lines.-Chestnut-red: the head and thorax darker than the abdomen; the apical joint of the antennae pale testaceous; head smooth and shining, the sides nearly parallel, slightly narrowed posteriorly; a slightly impressed line runs upwards from the insertion of the antennae half-way towards the vertex, which is slightly emarginate behind, the edge of the emargination crossed by a few short striae. Thorax flattened above, and with a number of elongate punctures or short striae. Abdomen: the node of the peduncle flattened above, quadrate, and with a number of irregular depressions or punctures; the lateral margins slightly raised; the segments impunctate, the apical one obliquely truncated, the lateral margins finely serrated; the abdomen sprinkled with pale fulvous hairs, most thickly so at the apex.

Hab . Brazil (Villa Nova). (Coll. H. W. Bates.)