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and separated from it by a rounded angle. Node higher, cuneifonn, convex 

 in front, flat behind, its upper border margined and subtruncate at middle. 



Shining. Mandibles with sparse, coarse punctures and fine striae. Head 

 and body finely coriaceous; front of head with sparse, coarse punctures. 



Erect hairs long and rather stiff on head and gaster, and fine appressed 

 pubescence regularly distributed on head, gaster, and appendages. 



Fuscopiceous, front of head, mandibles, and appendages fulvous; femora 

 fuscous. 



Female. Length 9.5 mm. 



Very similar to the soldier, with the usual sexual difference. The petiole is 

 thicker, as broad above as at base and its dorsal surface broad and flat. Wings 

 (length 8 mm.) subhyaline, with brown veins. 



Male. Length 5.5 mm. 



Head longer than broad, clypeus obtusely carinate at middle, anterior 

 border rounded. Antennal scapes surpassing occipital borders by about one 

 third their length. Node low and rounded, broad above and shallowly im- 

 pressed at posterior border. 



Shining. Coriaceous. Mesonotum and scutellum with few very coarse 

 shallow punctures. 



Erect hairs very fine and sparse. 



Fuscopiceous. Funiculi and legs fulvous, femora darker than the rest. 



Ovalau (Mayr). Viti Levu: Waiyanitu. Vanua Levu: Labasa, 

 Suene, Lasema, ^Yainunu. 



I did not find this species on Ovalau, the type-locahty, but it was not 

 uncommon in the other locaUties cited, nesting, as usual in the sub- 

 genus, in hollow twigs. Type. — M. C. Z. 8,724. 



76. Camponotus (Colobopsis) oceanicus Mayr. 

 Verh. Zool. bot. gesellsch. Wien, 1870, 20, p. 943, 9 . 



"Female. Length 10 mm. 



Shining, rufo-castaneous. Head castaneous, front, vertex and abdomen 

 piceous. Sparsely pilose; scarcely pubescent. Mandibles finely striolate; 

 sparsely punctate. Head finely coriaceous, not strongly obliquely truncate 

 in front. Cly]Deus vertical, finely striolate. Front almost smooth, with a 

 few very fine punctures. Clypeus quadrangular, scarcely longer than broad 

 flat, without a median carina. Cheeks convex. Thorax unarmed, micro- 



