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6. Epinotura angulate between base and declivity, J*ut not projecting 

 tooth 7 



Gpinotum projecting behind as a distinct, acute, triangular tooth 



7. Gaster brownish red, with ;i dense covering ol appressed brownish 



yellow hairs maafw Maim 



Gaster Mack, with much sparser pubescence 8 



B Femora black cristcUtu Mayr 



Femora red-brown cristcUus var. nagasau Maim 



<>. Thorax rufocastaneous laminattia Mayr 



Thorax Mack 10 



10. Slender, elongate species. Node strongly excised ai middle. 



Thorax more shining laminatus var. levnanus Maim 



Stouter species. Epinotum pointed at middle. Thorax very feebly shining. 



cristatus subsp. sadina Maim 



73. Camponotus (Colobopsis?) vitiensis, sp. nov. Fig. 36. 

 Worker. Length 7.5-8 mm. 



Head longer than broad, scarcely narrowed in front, sides and posterior 

 border nearly straight. Mandibles with four stout triangular teeth. ( 'lypeus 

 feebly convex, transversely depressed before anterior margin which is broadly 

 rounded. Antennae Blender, their scapes surpassing occipital border by more 

 than half their length. Pronol um about as long as broad, little convex above. 

 Mesoepinotum depressed, very feebly convex, in profile, broadly and shallowly 



Fig. 36. — Camponotus (Colobopsis) vitiensis Mann. Worker. Lateral viem of thorax and 

 petiole. 



impressed transversely at middle, the base rounding into the broad and nearly 

 flat declivity. Petiolar node in profile longer than high, broadly triangular 

 above* with slightly concave anterior and flat posterior surface; from the front 

 broad above, convex at middle, with the sides elevated as short, blunt cones. 

 Gaster long and depressed. Legs long, slender, and strongly compressed. 



Subopaque. Caster and legs a little more shining than the rest. 



Mandibles coarsely punctate apically, densely rugulose-striolate basally. 



