316 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. 



Dark brown to black; front of head and anterior third of first gasteric seg- 

 ment brownish red, tips of femora, tibiae, and tarsi yellowish brown. 



San Cristoval: Wai-ai (TjT)e-locality), Pamua, Wainoni Bay. Ugi: 

 Pawa. 



An abundant species in the above localities, where it nests beneath 

 stones and logs. Type. — M. C. Z. 9,169. 



41. Pheidole fuscula Emery. 

 Term, fuzet., 1900, 23, p. 324, Ql S . 



Ysabel: Fulakora. 



Several colonies were found in rotten logs. 



42. Pheidole Philemon Forel. 



Rev. Suisse zool., 1910, 18, p. 44, Q| g cf . 



Santa Cruz: Graciosa Bay. Three Sisters: Malapaina. San 

 Cristoval: Wai-ai. Malaita: Auki. 



43. Pheidole umbonata Mayr. 



Verb. K. K. zool.-bot. gesellsch. Wien, 1870, 20, p. 977, % . 

 Ugi: Pawa. San Cristoval: Wai-ai. Malaita: Auki. 



44. Pheidole oceanica Mayr. 



Sitzungsb. Akad. wiss. Wien, 1866, 53, p. 510, % ^ . 

 Verh. K.K. zool.-bot. gesellsch. Wien, 1870, 20, p. 979, Ql ^ . 



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

 Pamua, Wainoni Bay. Malaita: Auki. Ysabel: Fulakora. 



This species, which occurs continuously in all the islands from the 

 Tonga group to New Guinea, is also abundant in the Solomons. It 

 lives in large colonies beneath stones or logs or in rotten wood. My 



