294 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. 



19a. Cryptopone mayri Mann, var. fuscior, var. nov. 

 Worker. Length 2 mm. 



Differing from the preceding only in its smaller size and in the color, 

 being dark fuscous almost black with the anterior border of head, 

 mandibles, borders of gastric segments, and appendages brown. 



Ysabel: Fulakora. 



Described from two workers. 



Key to Papuasian Species. 



Eyes absent 1 . 



Eyes present, though minute 2. 



1. Length 2.50-2.75 mm. Color yellowish brown. (Solomons) mayri Mann. 

 Length 2 mm. Color mostly black. (Solomons) . . mayri var. minor Mann. 



2. Mesgepinotal suture distinct, mandibles 5-dentate. Length If-l* mm. 



(New Guinea) fusciceps Emery. 



Mesoepinotal suture indistinct; head longer. Mandibles with three to 

 four strong teeth , 3. 



3. Antennal scapes extending less than two thirds the distance to occipital 



corners; mandibles with three large teeth anteriorly and obtusely 

 dentate posteriorly. Length 1-L2 mm. (New Guinea) . . mocsaryi Czabo. 

 Antennal scapes extending more than two thirds the distance to occipital 

 corners; head a fourth longer than broad; mandibles with four teeth in 

 front, edentate behind. Length If-lf mm. (New Guinea). 



tenuis Emery. 



20. Ponera gleadowi Forel, subsp. 



San Cristoval: Pamua. 



A unique worker belongs to a subspecies of gleadowi near, if not iden- 

 tical with subsp. decipien,, Forel from Hawaii. 



21. Ponera pruinosa Emery. 



Term, fuzet., 1900, 23, p. 316, 319, pi. 8, fig. 13, 14, g . 



Female. Length 3.5 mm. 



Scarcely larger than the worker. The eyes are a little more than a fourth 

 as long as the head, situated at a distance equal to half their length from the 



