MANN! wis 01 PHI I i.ii ISLANDS. I I:; 



:'). Sides of mesonotum elevated as erect triangular spines onifera Mann 



Sides of mesonotum not elevated I 



i. Small yellow brown Bpeci< Length 2.5 mm.); vertex not impree ed 



transversely. Epinotal spines short. No antenna] scrobee urribonata Mayr 



Larger Bpecies. Vertex Lateral!} impressed. Epinotal spines Longer. 



Sides of head w il I) anteniial BCrobeS moderately or well developed 5 



5. Sides of postpetiole extended as curved spines, nearly hall' as Long as the 

 breadth of petiole. Clypeus strongly concave at anterior border. Antenna! 



scapes extending distinctly less than half the distance to occipital comers. 



Base of (iist gastric segment strongly punctate and opaque rain. Mann 



Side-, of petiole rounded or conical. Antenna! BCapes extending at least 

 half the distance to occipital corners 6 



ti. Base of first gastric segmenl densely striate punctate. Epinotum and 



petiole densely punctate and opaque cdhhrclli Mann 



Base of first gastric segment smooth. Epinotum and petiole not opaque 7 



7. Large brown species (length 4-4.5 mm.). Pronotum rounded at Bides. 



oceanica Mayr 



Smaller, darker species. Pronotum <j.il>l>ous or connate at sides 8 



8. ( Occipital border narrowly excised at middle. ( )ccipital region punctate. 

 Color black WlUoni Mann 



Occipital border more broadly excised. Occipital region smooth. Color 

 brown 9 



9. Striae on front of head terminating at vertical impression, leaving the 

 vertex and occiput smooth and shining. Reddish brown; head with two 

 fuscous blotches kn&wlesi Mann 



Striae on front extending onto the vertex knowlesi subsp. extenna Mann 



30. CardiocondyIvA nuda (Mayr). 

 Leptothorax nudus Mayr, Sitz. Akad. wiss. Wien, 1866, 53, p. 508, § . 



Viti Levu: Saiaro. Vanua Levu: Lasema. 



Lives in small colonies beneath stones or bark or in the ground. 



31. Monomoritjm pharaoxis (Linne). 

 Formica pharonis Linne, Syst. nat., ed. 10, 1758, 1, p. 580. 



Yiti Levu: Nausori. 



Common in the cane-fields. 



32. Moxomorium floricola (Jerdon). 



A tta floricola Jcrdon, Madras journ. lit t . & sci., 1851, 17, p. 107. 



Viti Levu: Xadarivatu, Waiyanitu, Nausori. Vanua Levu: 

 Lasema. Cicia. Ovalau: Levuka. 



