HYMENOPTEEA FBOM THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. G75 



Fam. FoEMiciDJE. 



Camponottjs sexguttatus, Fair. Ent. Syst. ii. p. 351. 6 ^ ^ . 



Hah. Honolulu. South America ; Brazil. 



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



Peenolepis CLANDESTiNA,ilfayr,iVez^e Formiciden (1870), p. 10. 

 Hab. Oahu. Java. 



Pam. PoNEEiDiS. 



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

 mica contracta, Latr. Hist. JVat. Foiirm. p. 195, tab. 7. fig . 40. 

 Hal). Oahu. South America ; Madeira ; Europe. 

 This species is rare ; I have never found a nest. {T. B.) 



Leptogents iNsrLAEis, n. sp. Worker. Length 3J 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. S.) 



Pam. MTEMlCIDiE. 



Teteamoeium GriNEENSE, Fair. Fnt. Si/st. ii. p, 357. ? . 

 Hah. Oahu. Gruinea. 



Pheidole :pvsjLJjA,Heer, Tleher die Hausameise Madeira's (1852) ; 

 Ann. Sf Mag. Xat. 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.) 



