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middle. Postpetiole more than twice as broad as petiole, with strong elongate, 

 curved projections at sides. 



Mandibles finely punctate and shining. Head subopaque, front and sides 

 longitudinally striate, scrobes cribrately punctate, vertex and occiput with fine 

 reticulate striae and the interspaces rugulose-punctate. Thorax feebly shining, 

 indistinctly transversely striated. Epinotum and postpetiole finely punctate. 

 First gastric segment at base densely and finely punctate and longitudinally 

 striate. Gaster and legs shining. 



Fine, erect white hairs moderately abundant on head, body, and appendages. 



Head brownish red, thorax, abdomen, and femora dark brown to black, 

 tibiae and tarsi brownish yellow. 



Fig. 13. — a. Pheidole knowlesi Mann. Soldier. Front view of head. b. Pheidole vatu 

 Mann. Soldier. Front view of head. 



Worker. Length 1.50 mm. 



Head a little longer than broad, as broad in front as behind, sides convex, 

 posterior border very feebly concave. Mandibles with six unequal teeth. 

 Clypeus straight at middle of anterior border. Antennal scapes surpassing 

 occipital corners by less then their diameter at tips; funicular joints 2-8 

 transverse; club as long as remainder of funiculus, with the terminal joint as 

 long as the other two together. Pronotum rounded at sides. Promesonotal 

 suture not discernible. Epinotal spines divergent, nearly straight, a httle 

 shorter than their distance apart at base. Petiolar node subcuneiform, faintly 

 impressed at middle. Postpetiole lower than petiole, less than twice as broad 

 as long and rounded at sides. 



Head opaque, the rest feebly shining. Mandibles finely striolate. Head 

 coarsely, densely, and regularly punctate and with feeble striae on front 

 parallel to frontal carinae. Thorax, petiole, and postpetiole superficially 

 punctate. 



Pilosity rather sparsely distributed on head, body, and appendages. 



Dark reddish brown to black, head paler than the rest; mandibles, funiculi, 

 and legs yellow-brown. 



Viti Levu: Nadarivatu. 

 Type.— M. C. Z. 8,695. 



