184 
Psyche 
[December 
This species was described from specimens taken by Major 
Thos. Broun at Drury, near Auckland, New Zealand. Forel 
originally spelled the gentleman’s name ‘^Brown” and named 
th^ species ‘d^rownii” but corrected the error in 1904. Emery 
in the Genera Insectorum” questions the advisability of this 
procedure. I can only record my conviction that such obvious 
taxonomic blunders should be corrected and not propagated in- 
definitely in the literature in a spirit of silly pedantry. 
Subsp. kirki subsp. nov. 
(Fig. 4.) 
W orker. Length 2.3-3 mm. 
Smaller than the typical form of the species, which measures 
3. 2-3. 5 mm. The head is not coarsel}^ but very finely and in- 
distinctly rugulose. The declivity of the epinotum is strongly 
concave, its lateral marginations enlarged above to form blunt 
but distinct teeth. The color differs from that of the type as 
Fig !. Acanihopoitera (Anacanthoponera) byoinii Forel snhsp. kirki suhsp. nov. a, head 
of worker from above; b, thorax and abdomen of same in profile; c, thorax and abdomen of 
ergatomorphic female in profile. 
