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SYNOPTIC LIST OF ANTS REPOR^ 



By liailD 



KEY 



el — Head and thorax chestnut 

 brown; abdomen black. Hairs 

 sparse 2nd node of pedicel 

 broader than 1st node 



e2 — Head and gaster dark. Tho- 

 rax yellow to reddish brown. 

 Hairs very sparse. 2nd node of 

 pedicel broader than 1st node. . 

 d2 — More than 2mm. in length 



el — Head and thorax reddish yel- 

 low; whole gaster dark brown. 



e2 — Head, thorax and base of ab- 

 domen reddish yellow; apical 

 2-3 of gaster nearly black 



Family FORMICIDAE (Hetei' 



fl — Head more or less smooth 

 and shining 



f2 — Head more or less regu- 

 lose, opaque 



c2 — Metanotum armed with well de- 

 veloped spines. Clypeus not bi- 

 carinate 



dl— Workers highly dimorphous 

 Back of occiput smooth 



d2 — Workers monomorphous. Whole 



occiput regulose 



el — Less than 2.5mm. in length.. 



fl — Yellowish brown 



f2 — Dark brown 



e2 — 3mm. or more in length. 



a2— Antennae 10-jointed 



M. minutum Mayr. 

 V. lilioukalani Forel 



M. floricola Jerdan. 



M. gracillimum Smith 



M. destructor Jerdan 



M.pharaonis Linn. 



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PHEIDOLE Westwood 

 P. megacephala Fab. 



CARDIOCONDYLA Emery 



C. wroughtonii Forel 

 V. hawaiiensis Forel 



C. nuda Mayr. 

 V. minutior Forel 



(Tribe TETRAMORII) 



TETRAMORIUM Mayr. 



T. guineense Fab. 



(Tribe SOLENOPSIDIIj 



SOLENOPSIS Westwood 



S. geminata Fab. 



