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typical form. The pubescence on the head and thorax seems to be somewhat 
finer and more dilute. 
The male agrees very closely with FOREL’s description of the typical form 
and with specimens of the subsp. Aawazzenszs in my collection. 
Several workers and two males. The typical form of the species was 
described from the island of Reunion and has also been recorded from the 
Seychelles, Chagos, Nicobars and Pemba Island, East Africa. The subsp. de7- 
galensis Forel was described from India, the subsp. ”’gaszyana Forel from the 
Grand Comoro, the var. amza Forel from Formosa and China and the subsp. 
hawatensis Forel from Hawaii. There are at least two undescribed forms of 
the species from the Philippines in my collection. — Easter Island. 
