HYMENOPTEEA FROM THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. 675 



Fam. FoBMiciDiE. 



-^ Camponotus sexguttatus, Fair. Ent. Syst. ii, p. 354. c? $ ? . 

 Hah. Honolulu. South America ; Brazil. 

 A nest of this ant occurred in an old drawer in a house {T. B.). 



Peenolepis CLANDESTiNAjJiayrjiV^eji^e Formiciden (1870), p. 10. 

 Hah. Oahu. Java. 



Earn. PoNEBiD^. 



PoNEEA CONTEACTA, Latr. Gen. Crust, et Ins. It. p. 128. — For- 

 mica contracta, Latr. Hist. Nat. Foiorm. p. 195, tab. 7. fig. 40. 

 Hah. Oahu. South America ; Madeira ', Europe. 

 This species is rare ; I have never found a nest. (.T. B.') 



Leptogents insflaris, n. sp. Worker. Length 3| lines. 

 Opaque black, and thinly covered with ashy pile. Head widest 

 anteriorly ; the eyes ovate, placed forwards, at the sides near the 

 base of the mandibles, which are falcate, and pointed at their apex, 

 which is ferruginous ; the flagellum of the antennae rufo-testa- 

 ceous, obscurely so above ; the clypeus produced ; the antennae 

 inserted at the sides of a prominence above the clypeus. Thorax 

 oblong, compressed from the prothorax to the apex of the meta- 

 thorax ; the tarsi more or less rufo-testaceous. Abdomen ob- 

 long, posteriorly narrowed to the apex; the node of the peduncle 

 subglobose, of the width of the metathorax, but narrower than 

 the first segment of the abdomen, which is slightly constricted ; 

 the apical segment pale ferruginous, and with a few fulvous hairs. 



Hah. Island of Oahu. 



Not rare ; it forms its nest under stones ; workers only taken. 

 {T. B.) 



Earn. MTEMiciDiE. 



Teteamoeium guineense, Fahr. Fnt. Si/st. ii. p. 357. 5 . 



Hah. Oahu. Gruinea. 



PHEiD0LEPUSTLLA,-Se(?r,Z7e&(s;' die Hausameise Madeira^ s(lS52) j 

 Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. (1856) xvii.p. 221. d 2 ^ major, $ 

 minor. 



Hah. Honolulu. 



One of the commonest Ants here, forming its nests under 

 stones. The nests always contain three forms ; but I have never 

 found the male. {T. B.) 



