82 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. 



91b. Vollenhovia oblonga subsp. alluaudi Emery. 



Vollenhovia alluaudi Emery, Bull. Soc. ent. France, 1894, p. 68, ^ . 



Vollenhovia oblonga var. alluaudi Emery, Ann. Mus. civ. Geneva, 1897, ser. 

 2, 18, p. 560, ^ . 



Vollenhovia oblonga subsp. alluaudi Emery, in Sarasin and Roux, Nova Cale- 

 donia. Zool., 1914, 1, p. 406; Forel, Trans. Linn. soc. London. Zool.j 

 1912, ser. 2, 15, p. 162, ^ 9 . 



Type-locality: Seychelles. 

 Borneo (Coll. Emery). 



91c. Vollenhovia oblonga subsp. laevithorax Emery. 



Vollenhovia laevithorax Emery, Ann. Mus. civ. Genova, 1889, ser. 2, 7, p. 501, ^ • 

 Vollenhovia oblonga subsp. laevithorax Emery, in Sarasin and Roux, Nova 

 Caledonia. Zool., 1914, 1, p. 406. 



Type-locality: Tenasserim (L. Fea). 

 Borneo (Coll. Emery). 



*92. Vollenhovia hewitti, sp. nov. 

 Worker. Length 2.4-2.6 mm. 



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Head rectangular, about -J longer than broad, with parallel sides and nearly 

 straight posterior border. Eyes flattened, a little in front of the middle of the 

 sides. Mandibles rather broad, their apical and basal borders meeting at a 

 sharp right angle, the former with three large apical and a few minute and 

 indistinct basal teeth. Cl3T)eus rather convex in the middle, strongly bicari- 

 nate, its anterior border straight and entire. Frontal area small, semicircular, 

 frontal carinae short. Antennal scapes reaching nearly to the posterior third 

 of the head; funiculi with a 4-jointed club, joints 2-7 decidedly broader than 

 long. Thorax rather long, narrower than the head, the pro- and mesonotum 

 together longer than broad, with prominent humeri, somewhat flattened 

 dorsally and laterally; mesoepinotal constriction narrow but distinct. Epino- 

 tum from above a little longer than broad, distinctly narrower than the 

 mesonotum, laterally compressed above in profile, with the base feebly rounded, 

 and longer than the abrupt, concave declivity, which is slightly angulate but 

 not dentate on each side above. Petiole narrow, twice as long as broad, as 

 broad in front as behind, through the node nearly as high as long, the latter 

 blunt and rounded, with subequal, slightly concave anterior and feebly convex 

 posterior slope, the ventral surface anteriorly with a compressed, translucent 



