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armed anteroventrally with b large, lamellate tooth, obtm | ilate in front. 



First gastric segment toothed anteroventrally. Legs long and rather slender. 



Strongly shining. Mandibles with very sparse punctures, Head, thorax, 

 and abdomen with coarse piligerous punctures which are stronger and moat 

 abundant on cheeks, occiput, ami Bides of front on the other parts. 



Very long and silky yellow erect hairs rather sparsely distributed on thorax 



and abdomen, shorter on head and much shorter on appends 



Color jet black; appendages bright reddish brown. 



Female. Length 3.25 nun. 



Resembling the worker, except for the usual sexual differences. The eyes 



are larger, the ocelli well developed. The wings are hyaline, with veins and 



stigma fuscous, Parapsidal furrows short and straight. 



The sculpture is similar to that of the worker; head coarsely punctate, the 



remainder irregularly and sparsely punctate. 



Male. Length '2.7) nun. 



Bead, excluding eyes, distinctly longer than broad, rather broadly rounded 

 behind. Eyes convex, less than half as long as sides of head, situated a little 

 in front ni middle. Ocelli large. Mandibles very well developed, similar in 

 shape to those of worker. (Typeus flattened at middle, broadly rounded at 

 anterior border. Frontal carinac short and curved. Antennae 1 1-jointed, 

 slender, their scapes extending a little beyond posterior borders of eyes, 1st 

 funicular joint rounded, a little shorter than the second, remaining joints 

 cylindrical, the second twice as long as broad, the others increasing in Length 

 toward the apex, terminal joint tapering, as long as the two preceding joints 

 and about five times as long as broad. Thorax robust, broadest in front of 

 wing insertions. Mesothorax with strong Mayrian furrows, margined along 

 apical half of border. Seutclluin convex, broader than long. Base of epino- 

 tum feebly rounded, about half as long as the flat declivous portion. Petiole 

 in profile longer than deep, narrowed and evenly convex above; from above, a 

 little longer than broad and slightly narrowed in front. Caster slender. 

 Genitalia prominent; penicelli large, stipites elongate and coarsely ciliate 

 apically. 



Shining. Head rugosely punctate, the remainder with scattered irregular 

 punctation. 



Pilosity similar to worker. 



Reddish brown throughout. Wings hyaline, veins and stigma brown. 



Yiti Levu: Waiyanitu (Type-locality). Vanua Levu: Lasema, 

 Suene. Kadavu: Vanua Ava. Taviuni: Mountains south of Somo 

 Somo. 



Occurs in small colonies beneath stones, not commonly, though 

 widely distributed. Type. — M. C. Z. 8,6S5. 



