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Psyche 
[September 
63 : 353 figs. 32, 33, worker, male. Type loc. : Fulakora, 
Santa Isabel I., Solomons Islands. 
Lectotype worker (by present selection) in MCZ: TL 4.4, 
HL 1.11, ML 0.66, WL 1.05; Cl 63, Ml 59. Agreeing with 
Mann's figures, except that these show the posterior cepha- 
lic and anterior clypeal excisions as considerably deeper 
than they should be. Fig. 32 of Mann also portrays the 
scapes as too slender, and the small proximal preapical 
tooth of the mandible is shown as much lower and less acute 
than in the lectotype. 
This species is easily recognized by the long, narrow, de- 
pressed head, long mandibles, elongate petiolar node, and by 
the partially smooth, shining state of most of the areas us- 
ually sculptured and opaque in species of this genus. An out- 
standing character is the presence of the small, triangular, 
but acute tooth in addition to the preapical tooth of most 
Indo-Australian Strumigenys; this extra preapical tooth is 
situated proximad of the preapical tooth near the midlength 
of the inner mandibular border. 
Distal preapical tooth of mandible about 5/8 the length of 
the dorsal apical, situated very slightly distad of the apical 
third of ML. Teeth of apical fork subparallel, the ventral 
tooth 2/3 the length of the dorsal tooth; one small acute 
intercalary tooth. 
Petiolar node a little less than (not “more than”) twice 
as long as broad. Mann gives the color as reddish brown; 
the lectotype and another headless syntype are more yellow- 
ish, and may be teneral. 
Male, from type series, MCZ: TL 3.2 mm. Color now is 
deep ferruginous; head deeply, alitrunk dorsum lightly, in- 
fuscated; legs and antennae sordid yellowish. Notauli com- 
plete and deep; parapsidal furrows present; no propodeal 
teeth. Nodes shaped as in worker, smooth and shining, but 
spongiform appendages and basigastric costulae obsolete. 
Mandibles not “bidentate,” but with an expanded, convex 
inner margin basally and a single straight, acute apical 
tooth. Fore-wing venation much reduced, with only R + Sc 
to pterostigma, stigma itself and 2r defined, and these 
scarcely pigmented. Few other veins represented by indis- 
tinct colorless furrows. Both wings glassy and clear, with 
