MANN: ANTS OF THE FIJI ISLANDS. 415 



Short, erect yellow hairs exceedingly sparse on thorax and abdomen and fine 

 yellow pubescence everywhere. 



Brownish yellow, head more brownish than thorax and abdomen. 



Female. Length 3.5 mm. 



Very similar to worker. The petiole more narrowed apicaUy. The ej^eg 

 are large and moderately convex, situated at sides of head at a distance of two 

 thirds their length from base of mandibles. Wings hyaline with pale veins 

 and stigma. 



Viti Levu: Nadarivatu. 



Described from several workers and a single female from small 

 colonies found beneath stones, generally deeply imbedded ones in 

 damp situations. Type. — M. C. Z. 8,686. 



Fig. 4. — Ponera vitiensis Mann. Worker. Lateral view of thorax and petiole. 



Ponera vitiensis is related to truncata F. Smith, moczaryi Emery, 

 and pruinosa Emery, but may be distinguished from the latter two 

 by its much smaller eyes and from truncata in the absence of carina 

 on clypeus and in having the petiole more narrowed above and from 

 all three species by its much lighter color. 



8a. Ponera biroi Emery, subsp. rugosa, subsp. nov. 

 Worker. Length 3-3.5 mm. 



Head a fourth longer than broad, a little narrowed in front, sides feebly 

 convex, posterior corners narrowly rounded, occipital border concave. Mandi- 

 bles elongate, their blades with eight unequal triangular teeth. Clypeus nar- 

 rowly and shallowly concave at middle of anterior border. Antennal scapes 

 extending five sixths the distance to occipital corners; first funicular joint 

 as long as the second and third together; joints 2-10 slightly transverse, 



