1983] 
Willey & Brown — Genus Myopias 
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lying on the ground, and contained larvae as well as the remains of 
small millipede prey. (Paratypes in MCZ, BMNH, ANIC, etc.) 
In addition, single strays come from three widespread localities: 
Dobodura, March to July 1944, leg. P. J. Darlington, Jr.; lora 
Creek, 17 km. S. of Kokoda at 1400 m, leg. Ward (No. 1831) rotten 
log, montane rain forest; Baiyer River, Western Highlands, about 
1200 m, 6 July 1974, leg. S. Peck, berlesate B-28 1 . The last specimen 
is the largest one of the species seen; it is also the darkest in color, 
has somewhat coarser punctures than usual on the head, and has the 
longest scapes, so that it might be thought transitional to M. media, 
but the form of the mandibles and clypeal lobe is typical for 
julivora. 
The name of this species derives from the Latin julus, a millipede, 
and vorare, to devour. The new species is close to the very variable 
M. tenuis, but seems constantly distinct from it, even where the two 
species occur in intimate sympatry, as they do in the Busu River 
tract. For relationship to M. media, see under that species below. 
Myopias media new species 
(Figs. 6, 23) 
Diagnosis, worker: member of tenuis group, very similar to M. 
julivora in habitus, color, etc., but larger, head wider, with more 
robust and more strongly curved mandibles, the submedian tooth 
situated closer to the midlength (at the seventh twelfth from base 
along MLO). Antennae long; scapes overreaching posterior border 
of head (when held straight back) by nearly twice their apical width. 
Worker, holotype: TL 7.6, HL 1.25, HW 1.24 (Cl 99), ML 0.93 
(MI 74), MLO 1.26, SL 1.27 (SI 102), EL 0.13, WL 2.20, hind femur 
L 1.40, hind tibia L 1.35 mm. 
Details additional to diagnosis: Viewed at apparent full-face, pos- 
terior border of head feebly convex, almost straight, but even a 
slight tilting of the cranium forward yields a concave border, and an 
increase in HL to 1 .30, so that from this view. Cl would be about 95. 
Anterolateral corners of head more prominent (at a lower level of 
focus), so that, excluding eyes, head is widest just behind clypeus. 
Median frontal sulcus continuing past mid-HL to include anterior 
clypeal pit. Eyes as in M. julivora, but relatively a little larger, and 
with remnants of facetting a bit more evident. Median clypeal lobe 
very obviously broader than long (CLL 0.13, CLW 0.20), with 
