No. 5. The A uis of the Fiji Islands* 



l',v VY. M. Maw. 



The ants listed and described in the presenl paper were collected 

 by the writer during L915 L916, when about ten months were -pent 

 in the Fijis as Sheldon Travelling Fellow of- Harvard University. 



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The Lau Archipelago was first visited. At Loma Loma on \';mua 

 Mbalavu I found a small cutter, tin- Lore Wesele, belonging to the 

 Wesleyan Mission, aboul to start for Ono i Lau at the southern 

 extremity of the group. Permission to travel on her was given me by 

 Rev. A. W. Amos at Lakeba and this enabled me to make a general, 

 though hurried, survey of fifteen of these islands. Certain fortuitous 

 circumstances, such as bad winds, native ceremonies, and the discovery 

 by our sailors of a roasted shark in a village, delayed the voyage at 

 various points and occasioned stops of several days at Tuvuca, Lakeba, 

 Kabara, and Ono i Lau, which permitted more extensive collecting. 

 At Munia, 1 remained over a week-end as guest of the owner of the 

 island, Mr. H. H. Steinmetz. 



On Taviuni I lived with Dr. R. S. Trotter who had charge of the 

 government hospital at Waiyevo, and collected chiefly in the hills 

 hack of the native village of Somo Somo. One excursion was made to 

 the mountain lake in the interior and another to the MacKenzie 

 estate at Nagasau, fourteen miles down the coast. 



Vanua Levu was twice visited; the first time by crossing from 

 Taviuni to Buca Hay. I remained for some time at Lasema, situated 

 a short distance up the Lasema River, where Mr. G. L T . Solney, the 

 proprietor of a saw-mill, extended to me the open hospitality char- 

 acteristic of his native Australia. At Labasa, quarters were obtained 

 in t he officers' barracks of the Colonial Sugar Company and trips made 

 from there into the mountains about Suene. Later, Captain David 

 Robie of Levuka, took me in his launch the Annie to Wainunu on the 

 south coast where I lived for a week at the tea plantation as guest of 

 the owner-, Captain Robie and Mr. G. C. Barrett. 



On Viti Levu I collected in a number of localities, on the Rewa River 

 at Nausori and Koro Vatu, on the Tai Levu coast, at Waiyanitu on 

 the Navua River, about Suva and finally walked across the island, 



