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103. Camponotus (Myrmoturba) maculatus Fabricius, subsp. 

 NOVA HOLLANDIAE Mayr, var. papua Emery. 



Lorentz's Nova Guinea, 1911, 9, p. 256,01. 



Santa Cruz: Graciosa Bay. San Cristoval: Wai-ai, Wainoni 

 Bay. Ysabel: Fulakora. 



103a. Camponotus (Myrmoturba) maculatus Fabr., subsp. 



SANCTAE CRUCIS, Subsp. nOV. 



Soldier. Length 7.5-8 mm. 



Head short and broad, slightly narrowed in front; broadly but very shal- 

 lowly excised posteriorly, posterior corners rather prominent. Mandibles 

 stout, 6-toothed. Cl>T)eus broadly rounded 

 at anterior border. Antennae slender, their 

 scapes extending about one fifth their length 

 past the occipital corners. 



Shining; finely shagreened. Mandibles 

 shining, punctate, and striate apically. Cly- 

 peus, front, and cheeks with coarse piligerous 

 punctures. 



Hairs yellow, erect, and sparse, long on 

 body, shorter on head; very sparse on 

 appendages. 



Reddish brown; head and gaster a little 

 darker than the rest. 



Santa Cruz 

 Anna. 



Graciosa Bay, Santa ^"^- ^2 — Camponotus (Myrmo- 

 turba) maculatus sanctae crucis 

 Mann. Worker major. Front 



Resembles 7iova hollandiae var. hinnilior view of head. 

 Forel, from Queensland, but has the 



head broader and shorter, with the elypeal lobe less produced and 

 with its anterior border broadly rounded instead of truncate; the 

 head is not strongly infuscated as in humilior. 



A very abundant ant, nesting in cavities of trees and in rotten wood. 



104a. Camponotus (Mayrmamblys) reticulatus Roger, var, 



BEDOTi Emery. 



Camponotus bedoii Emery, Rev. Suisse zool., 1893, 1, p. 196, ^ . 



