462 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. 



foveolately punctate, gaster with strong basal striae, thorax finely and super- 

 ficially punctate. 



Spongiform processes very dense and continuous on ventral and lateral 

 surfaces and posterior borders of petiole and postpetiole. Scapes with a 

 series of curved club-shaped hairs on outer border, the one at the basal angle 

 twice as long as the others. Head and thorax with exceedingly sparse micro- ■ 

 scopic hairs. 



Brownish yellow, the head darker than the rest. 



Vanua Levu: Lasema (Type-locality). Viti Levu: Saiaro. Lau: 

 Lakeba. 



Occurs in small colonies beneath stones. The deep scrobes, con- 

 taining scapes and funiculi, the trigonal mandibles warrant, I think 

 the resurrection of Smith's genus Cephaloxys as a subgenus to contain 

 S. vitiensis and S. capitata. 



In the structure of the head S. vitiensis resembles very closely 

 S. capitata F. Smith, as described and figured by Emery (Ann. Mus. 

 civ. stor. nat. Genova, 1887, 5, p. 468, pi. 2, fig. 20, S ) but the thorax 

 is entirely different. In capitata the mesoepinotal suture is impressed 

 and the dorsum of the pro- and mesothorax convex, instead of being 

 nearly flat and the humeral angles are rounded. The antennae are 

 not as thick and the epinotum is armed with flattened spines, which 

 are lacking in vitiensis. Type. — M. C. Z. 8,727. 



49. Strumigenys godeffroyi Mayr. 



Sitz. Akad. wiss. Wien, 1866, 53, p. 516, ^ . 



Viti Levu : Nadarivatu, Waiyanitu, ' Tai Levu. Vanua Levu : 

 Suene, Lasema; Taviuni: Somo Somo. Kada^al: Vunisea, Vanua 

 Ava. Lau. 



50. Strumigenys jepsoni, sp. nov. Fig. 22a. 



Worker. Length 1.5-2 mm. 



Head similar in shape but broader, than in godeffroyi. Mandibles less than 

 half as long as head, of subequal width to near apex; armed with two long 

 apical teeth and a third, equally long and basal to these. Cl^i^eus concave at 

 anterior border. Antennal scapes extending two thirds the distance to 

 occipital corners; first funicular joint longer than the second and third to- 

 gether, and as long as the foiu-th, terminal joint a little longer than the 

 remainder of the funiculus. Thorax not impressed at suture. Pro- and meso- 

 notum together elongate-oval. Base of epinotum rather flat. Spines long and 



