MANN: ANTS OF THE BRITISH SOLOMON ISLANDS. 329 



Described from females and workers from two small colonies that 

 contained less than a dozen workers each. 



In the very feebly impressed mesoepinotal suture, the sharply 

 angulate pronotal humeri and in sculpture, foveaceps and the closely 

 related punctata Vieh. from New Guinea differ markedly from the 

 other Papuasian species. V. punctata is larger than foveaceps and 

 differently colored and has the petiole and postpetiole similar to 

 subtilis Emery subsp. magna Viehmeyer. In that form, accoi'ding to 

 Viehmeyer's description, the postpetiole is somewhat broader than 

 the petiole and has strongly convex sides. In foveaceps it is twice as 

 broad as the petiole and the sides are nearly straight. 



58. MoNOMORiUM TALPA Emery. 



Lorentz's Nova Guinea, 1911, 9, p. 2,52, ^ . 



Female. Length 3 mm. 



Head rugulosely striate and punctate. Thorax and node coarsely punctate. 

 Epinotum in profile angulate similarly to worker. Petiole and postpetiole 

 thicker than in worker. 



Color dark reddish brown; mandibles, antennae, and legs brownish yellow. 



San Cristoval: Star Harbor, Wainoni Bay. Ugi: Pawa. 

 Occurs beneath stones and in rotten logs. 



59. MoNOMORiUM PHARAONis (Linue). 

 Formica pharaonis Linne, Syst. nat., ed. 10, 1758, 1, p. 580. 

 Malaita: Auki. Ugi: Pawa.^ 



60. SOLENOPSIS PAWAENSIS, Sp. nOV. 



Worker. Length 1 mm. 



Head a little longer than broad, broadest behind, with moderately convex 

 sides and concave occipital border. Clypeus bicarinate and bidentate, the 

 teeth broad and triangular. Mandibles with four large teeth. Antennal 

 scapes extending three fourths the distance to occipital corners; funicular 



