86 
Psyche 
[June-September 
punctulate, without rugulation or median furrow, but with 
about 20 erect spatulate hairs. Petiolar node broader than 
long; otherwise, only the usual caste differences from the 
worker. TL 2.8, HL 0.65, ML 0.24, WL 0.72 mm.; Cl 77, 
Mi 37. 
Strumigenys indagatrix Wheeler 
Strumigenys indagatrix Wheeler, 1919, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 
63: 94, worker. Type loc.: Kuching, Sarawak, Borneo [MCZ], Cotypes 
(syntypes) in M. C. Z. 
Cotypes, 2 workers: TL 2.5, 2.5; HL 0.60, 0.60; ML 0.32, 
0.32; wl 0.62, 0.63 mm.; ci 67, 67 ; mi 53, 53. This species 
is extremely close to S. godeffroyi, and may even be only 
an extreme variant of that species. So far as can be told 
from the cotypes, indagatrix differs only in its slightly 
longer mandibles, slightly less well developed eyes and dorsal 
alitruncal pilosity, and somewhat more complete alitruncal 
sculpture; punctulation on pronotal dorsum and sides of 
alitrunk covers these areas completely and uniformly, with- 
out noticeable effacement. 
Wheeler’s treatment of this species could scarcely be more 
misleading. He regarded indagatrix as similar to S. moc- 
saryi , but said that “ the mandibles are decidedly shorter,” 
actually the reverse of the true situation. He then com- 
pared the species to four of five Strumigenys species de- 
scribed by Forel from Java in a paper published in 1905, 
saying that indagatrix was “smaller than any of them,” a 
statement that does not hold well in the case of two of the 
species (signeae and ebbae) . It is curious that of the four 
1905 Forel species, none is very close to indagatrix, while 
the fifth ( juliae ), which Wheeler does not mention at all, is 
exceedingly close to both indagatrix and godeffroyi, if indeed 
it is separable at all. Wheeler’s comparisons are all the 
more puzzling when one realizes that his collection contained 
samples determined by himself as both juliae and godeffroyi. 
S. indagatrix remains known only from the types, and until 
more samples turn up, it must remain doubtfully distinct 
from godeffroyi. 
Strumigenys forficata sp. nov. 
Holotype worker: TL 2.79, HL 0.68, ml 0.23, WL 0.74 
