MANN: \\ rs "i i in. i i. ii ISLANDS. 



483 



St in. black, erecl hairs verj Bparee on head and body, lacking on appends 

 Pine appressed pubescence Bparee on head :in<l appendages, longer and more 

 abundant on gaster. 



Head, thorax, epinotum, petiole tip of gaster, and legs, except tarsi, black; 

 dorsum of first three gastric segments light brownish red, with the posterior 

 margins Mack; mandibles, funiculi, and tarsi brownish red. 



Worker. Length 6.5 7 nun. 



Head a little longer than broad, sides feebly convex, posterior border broadly 



rounded. Mandibles with live strong teeth. Clypeus nearly flat, anterior 

 border broadly rounded. Antenna! scapes surpassing occipital .corners by 

 nearly half their length. Epinotum much as in cristatus but with the posterior 

 margin projecting and rounded. Petiole broad at base, narrow above, with 

 convex anterior and nearly Hat posterior surfaces; from the front narrowed 

 and somewhat pointed at middle. 



Fig. 31. — Camponotus (Myrmegonia) maafui Mann. Soldier. Lateral view of thorax and 

 petiole. 



Nearly opaque. Mandibles rugulose-striate. Head and thorax very 

 densely and finely punctate. Gaster transversely coriaceously striolate. 



Head and pronotum with erect, rather stiff and sparse hairs. Epinotum 

 with very short and fine erect hairs. Gaster with a moderately dense covering 

 of long yellow recumbent hairs. 



( '"lor as in worker major. 



Varum Levu: Lasema (Type-locality), Suene, Wainunu, Labasa. 



Nests in hollow twigs. 



This species i-> closely related to C. cristatus. The soldiers of 

 maafui may be distinguished by the narrower clypeus, the different 

 contour of the epinotal base, the unarmed petiolar node and the color; 

 the workers by the color and pilosity of the gaster and the structure 



