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6. Epinotuni angulate between base and declivity, but not projecting as a 

 tooth 7 



Epinotum projecting behind as a distinct, acute, triangular tooth 9 



7. Gaster brownish red, with a dense covering of appressed brownish 

 yellow hairs maafui Mann 



Gaster black, with much sparser pubescence 8 



8. Femora black cristatus Mayr 



Femora red-brown cristatus var. nagasau Mann 



9. Thorax rufocastaneous laminatus INIayr 



Thorax black 10 



10. Slender, elongate species. Node strongly excised at middle. 



Thorax more shining laminatus var. lenianus Mann 



Stouter species. Epinotum pointed at middle. Thorax very feebly shining. 



cristatus subsp. sadina Mann 



73. Camponotus (Colobopsis?) vitiensis, sp. nov. Fig. 36. 



Worker. Length 7.5-S mm. 



Head longer than broad, scarcely narrowed in front, sides and posterior 

 border nearly straight. . Mandibles with four stout triangular teeth. Cl>Teus 

 feebly convex, transversely depressed before anterior margin which is broadly 

 rounded. Antennae slender, their scapes surpassing occipital border by more 

 than half their length. Pronotum about as long as broad, little convex above. 

 Mesoepinotum depressed, very feebly convex, in profile, broadly and shallowly 



Fig. 36. — Camponotus (Colobopsis) vitiensis Mann, 

 petiole. 



Worker. Lateral view of thorax and 



impressed transversely at middle, the base rounding into the broad and nearly 

 flat declivity. Petiolar node in profile longer than high, broadly triangular 

 above with slightly concave anterior and flat posterior surface; from the front 

 broad above, convex at middle, with the sides elevated as short, blunt cones. 

 Gaster long and depressed. Legs long, slender, and strongly compressed. 



Subopaque. Gaster and legs a little more shining than the rest. 



Mandibles coarsely punctate apically, densely rugulose-striolate basally. 



