351) lilLLETlN: MISKIM OF fOMPAHATIVK ZOOLOGY. 



Color testaceous throughout. Wings hyaline, veins and the broad stigma 

 'yellowish. 



Ugi: Pawa. 



The many workers before me, agree closeh- with Andre's descrip- 

 tion and with workers from India received from Dr. Forel. This 

 species, like the reUited species slriatidens Emery which Forel has 

 recorded from the Bismarck Archipelago but which I failed to find in 

 the Solomons, appears to be extending its range. 



79a. Triglyphothrix fulviceps Emery, subsp. .wtennata, subsp. 



nov. 



Worker. Length 2.25-2.50 mm. 



Head a little longer than broad, about as broad in front as behind, with 

 conve.x sides, narrowly angled posterior corners and concave border. Mandi- 

 bular blades 6-dentate, the three basal blades short, the others longer and acute. 

 Clj-peus rather strongh' convex, sharply carinate at middle; anterior border 

 feebly rounded. Antennal scapes almost attaining occipital corners; funicular 

 joints two to eight slightly transverse; terminal joint longer than the two 

 preceding joints taken together. Eyes large and convex, located at sides 



Fig. 30. — Triglyphothrix fulviceps antcnnata Mann. Worker. Lateral view of thorax 

 and petiole. 



of head, a little in front of middle. Thorax robust, in profile evenly convex ; 

 from above, broad in front with rounded humeral angles and nearly straight 

 sides. Base and declivity of epinotum not distinct; spines divergent, acute, 

 about as long as distance between their bases. Petiolar node in profile as long 

 as high, nearly straight in front, convex above and behind; from above, a little 

 longer than broad, narrowest in front, with convex sides. Postpetiole trans- 

 versely ovate; broader than petiole. 



Somewhat shining, the gaster and legs more so than the rest. Mandibles 

 and clj-peus coarsely striate. Head longitudinally striate, the striae becoming 

 reticulate on vertex, sides, and occiput. Thorax, epinotum, petiole, and post- 

 petiole coarsely, cribrately punctate. Gaster coarsely but shallowly punc- 



