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armed anteroventrally with a large, lamellate tooth, obtusely angulate in front. 

 First gastric segment toothed anteroventrally. Legs long and rather slender. 



Strongly shining. Mandibles with very sparse punctures. Head, thorax, 

 and abdomen with coarse piligerous punctures which are stronger and most 

 abundant on cheeks, occiput, and sides of front, sparse on the other parts. 



Very long and silky yellow erect hairs rather sparsely distributed on thorax 

 and abdomen, shorter on head and much shorter on appendages. 



Color jet black; appendages bright reddish brown. 



Female. Length 3.25 mm. 



Resembling the worker, except for the usual sexual differences. The eyes 

 are larger, the ocelli well developed. The wings are hyaline, with veins and 

 stigtna fuscous. Parapsidal furrows short and straight. 



The sculpture is similar to that of the worker; head coarsely punctate, the 

 remainder irregularly and sparsely punctate. 



Male. Length 2.5 mm. 



Head, excluding eyes, distinctly longer than broad, rather broadly rounded 

 behind. Eyes convex, less than half as long as sides of head, situated a little 

 in front of middle. Ocelli large. Mandibles very well developed, similar in 

 shape to those of worker. CHiieus flattened at middle, broadly rounded at 

 anterior border. Frontal carinae short and curved. Antennae 14-jointed, 

 slender, their scapes extending a little beyond posterior borders of eyes, 1st 

 funicular joint rounded, a little shorter than the second, remaining joints 

 cylindrical, the second twice as long as broad, the others increasing in length 

 toward the apex, terminal joint tapering, as long as the two preceding joints 

 and about five times as long as broad. Thorax robust, broadest in front of 

 wing insertions. Mesothorax with strong Ma>Tian furrows, margined along 

 apical half of border. Scutellum convex, broader than long. Base of epino- 

 tiuii feebly rounded, about half as long as the fiat declivous portion. Petiole 

 in profile longer than deep, narrowed and evenly convex above ; from above, a 

 little longer than broad and slightly narrowed in front. Gaster slender. 

 Genitalia prominent; penicelli large, stipites elongate and coarsely ciliate 

 apically. 



Shining. Head rugosely punctate, the remainder with scattered irregular 

 punctation. 



Pilosity similar to worker. 



Reddish brown throughout. Wings hyaline, veins and stigma brown. 



Viti Levu: Waiyanitu (Ty pe-locaht y) . Vanua Levu: Lasema, 

 Suene. Kadavu: Vanua Ava. Taviuni: Mountains south of Somo 

 Somo. 



Occurs in small colonies beneath stones, not commonly, though 

 widely distributed. Type.— M. C. Z. 8,685. 



