mann: ants of the fiji islands. 



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Stiff, l)liick, erect hairs very sparse on liead and body, lacking on appendages. 

 Fine ai)pressed pubescence sparse on head and appendages, k)nger and more 

 abundant on gaster. 



Head, thorax, epinotum, petiole, tip of gaster, and legs, except tarsi, black; 

 dorsum of first three gastric segments light brownish red, with tlie posterior 

 margins black; mandibles, funiculi, and tarsi brownish red. 



]]'orI:er. Length 6.5-7 mm. 



Head a little longer tlian broad, sides feebly convex, posterior border liroadly 

 rounded. Mandibles with five strong teeth. CHi^eus nearly flat, anterior 

 border broadly rounded. Antennal scapes surpassing occipital corners by 

 nearly half their length. Epinotum much as in crisiatus but with the posterior 

 margin projecting and rounded. Petiole broad at base, narrow above, with 

 convex anterior and nearly flat posterior surfaces; from the front narrowed 

 and somewhat pointed at middle. 



Fig. .31. — • Camponotus (Mynnegonia) maafui Mann, 

 petiole. 



Soldier. Lateral view of thorax and 



Nearly opaque. Mandibles rugulose-striate. Head and thorax very 

 densely and finely punctate. Gaster transversely coriaceously striolate. 



Head and pronotum with erect, rather stiff and sparse hairs. Epinotum 

 with very short and fine erect hairs. Gaster with a moderately dense covering 

 of long yellow recumbent hairs. 



Color as in worker major. 



Vanua Levu: Lasema (Type-locality), Suene, Wainunu, Labasa. 



Nests in hollow twigs. 



This species is closely related to C. crisiatus. The soldiers of 

 maafui may be distinguished by the narrower clypeus, the different 

 contour of the epinotal base, the unarmed petiolar node and the color; 

 the workers by the color and pilosity of the gaster and the structure 



