Excerpt from The Tachigalia Ants Smooth and shining, especially the head, which is very sparsely punctate; on the thorax the punctures are smaller and somewhat denser, and the gaster is very finely and superficially punctate and therefore appears somewhat less shining than the head and pronotum. Mandibles at their tips very finely striate and with coarse, elongate punctures; cheeks and pleura finely and superficially punctate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.