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ibid. 1912, p. 507 ^ ; Emery, Genera Insect. Fasc. 137, 1912, p. 17; 

 Viehmeyer, Abhand. Ber. zool. anthr. ethnogr. Mus. Dresden, 14, 

 1912, p. 22 S ; Emery, in Sarasin and Roux, Nova Caledonia, 1, 1914, 

 p. 418. 



Worker. Length 6-7.5 ram. 



Head, excluding the mandibles fully twice as long as broad; in 

 front of the eyes with straight, subparallel sides, behind the eyes 

 conical and narrowing rapidly but without 

 constriction to the short, straight, occipital 

 border. Antennsie very slender, the scapes sur- 

 passing the head by about | their length. 

 Thorax slender; pronotum nearly twice as 

 long as broad; epinotum rather short, its base 

 feebly convex and only twice as long as the 

 declivity. Petiole small, its anterior and pos- 

 terior surfaces rather straight, its blunt summit 

 very feebly impressed in the middle. Gaster 

 broadly elliptical; legs very slender; tibiae not 

 compressed. 



Surface of body slightly shining, very finely 



and densely shagreened. Mandibles with a ^^«^«^ }^- J^'^P^"' 

 , p 11-1 myrmex pallens hjvaery . 



smgle row oi coarse punctures along the apical Head of worker. 



border. 



Hairs very feebly developed as in the other species; pubescence 

 white, extremely fine, so that the surface is scarcely pruinose. 



Pale ruf otestaceous ; gaster brownish black. 



Male. Length 7 mm. 



Rufotestaceous throughout, except the black eyes and the ocellar 

 orbits and articulations of the wings which are brownish black. Body 

 slightly shining, extremeh^ finely and superficially shagreened. Pubes- 

 cence and pilosity almost absent. Wings slightly smoky, with brown- 

 ish veins. 



New Caledonia: Oubatche, Yambe, Hienghiene, Cone, Canale, 

 Valley of the Negropo, Coinde, La Foa, Valley of Ngoi, Yate, Noumea 

 (Sarasin and Roux). 



Loyalty Islands: Ouvea, Fayaoue (Sarasin and Roux). 



German New Ouinea (Lauterbach) . 



Dutch New Guinea: Tana (Moszkowski). 



This species, of which I have examined two worker specimens 

 received from Professors Emery and Forel, is very similar to L. varians 

 but is smaller and the head is less elongated and not constricted at 

 the occiput. The description of the male is taken from Ern. Andre. 



