MANN: ANTS OF TIIK BRITISH SOLOMON ISLANDS. 295 



clypeus. The wings (length 3.25 mm.) are faintly infuscated, and densely 

 pubescent; veins and stigma fuscous. 



Male. Length 2^ mm. 



Head, excluding the eyes, as broad as long, broadly rounded behind. Man- 

 dibles feeble, short, triangular, and edentate. Clypeus strongly elevated at 

 middle, the anterior border narrowly concave at middle. Antennae long and 

 slender; first funicular joint scarcely longer than broad, a little more than half 

 the length of the scape; 2nd joint two and three fourths times as long as the 

 first; joints 3-11 subequal, cylindrical; terminal joint one and a half times as 

 long as penultimate. Eyes and ocelli large, the former moderately convex. 

 Epinotum broad; in profile convex basally; declivous portion sloping, with 

 the surface flat discally, broadlj^ rounded at sides. Node shorter than that 

 of worker; anterior face convex, rounded above, declivous behind. Gaster 

 markedly constricted between first and second segments. Genitalia small. 



Color and pubescence similar to that of worker; pilosity more abundant. 

 Wings not infuscated, pubescent similarly to those of female. 



Three Sisters: Malapaina. San Cristoval: ^Yaino^i Bay, Wai-ai, 

 Pamua. Ugi: Pawa. Malaita: Auki. Florida: Tulagi. Ysabel: 

 Fulakora. 



A large series of workers agree closely with Emery's description of 

 workers from New Guinea. It is the commonest species of the genus 

 in the Solomons. 



22. PoNERA PAPUAXUM Emery. 



Term, fuzet., 1900, 23, p. 319, pi. 8, fig. 10-11, g . 



Three Sisters: Malapaina. San Cristoval: Wai-ai. Ugi: Pawa. 

 Ysabel : Fulakora. 



A small series of workers and females which I refer to this species 

 agree closely with Emery's description. 



The wangs of the female are strongly infuscated, with the veins and 

 stigma dark. 



23. PoNERA PALLiDULA Emery. 



Term, fuzet., 1900, 23, p. 316, 320, pi. 8, fig. 17, 18, ^ . 



Malaita: Auki. Ysabel: Fulakora. 



A dealated female taken in a colony is barely larger than the worker. 



