270 
Psyche 
[Vol. 90 
6.7, HL 1.07, HW 1.05 (Cl 98), ML 0.52 (Ml 49), MLO 0.81, SL 
0.85 (SI 81), EL 0.24, WL 1.92 mm. 
Male unknown. 
Holotype [MCZ] one of six workers from Shipton’s Flat, south of 
Cooktown, Queensland, during June 1958, leg. P.F. and P.J. Dar- 
lington. This locality is savannah woodland grading into riparian 
rain forest (gallery forest), and lies at an elevation of about 300 m. 
(The Kuranda queen is from a similar elevation.) A pin of three 
workers comes from Koombooloomba, near the dam of the same 
name south of Ravenshoe, Queensland, at about 750 m in rain 
forest, “4/7/71,” leg. Taylor and J. Feehan. We have no informa- 
tion about possible prey. 
The name densesticta refers to the characteristic foveolate 
sculpture. 
Myopias tasmaniensis 
(Fig. 16) 
Myopias tasmaniensis Wheeler, 1923, Psyche 30:177-179, fig. I, worker. Type loc: 
Hobart, Tasmania. 
Trapeziopelta tasmaniensis: Brown, 1953, Psyche 60:51, records from Dandenong 
Range, Victoria, Australia. 
Trapeziopelta diadela Clark, 1934: Mem, Nat. Mus,, Melbourne, Australia, 8:54-55, 
pi. 4, f., 7,8, worker, queen. Type loc., Turton’s Track, Otway Ranges, Victoria. 
(Syn, by Brown, 1953). 
Two collections made by Father Bede Lowery extend the range 
far to the north in eastern Australia; Minnamurra Falls, near 
Kiama, New South Wales, nest in soil of very moist forest, behind 
rock slab set in a vertical bank, 22 Dec. 1959; Cunningham’s Gap, 
southeastern Queensland, at about 600 m in rain forest,. 22 Jan. 
1961. 
Myopias tenuis new combination 
(Figs. 15, 17) 
Trapeiiopelta tenuis Emery, 1900, Termeszetr, Fliz. 23:313-314, dealate queen. Type 
loc.: Beliao Island, near Berlinhafen (now Aitape), Papua New Guinea. 1902, 155, 
worker, Sattelberg, Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea. 
Trapeziopelta tenuis \ar. fulvescens Emery, 1902:155, worker, dealate queen. Type 
loc,: Sattelberg, Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea. New synonym. 
This is the smallest of the known Melanesian Myopias species, 
and also the most common and widespread. The typical form is 
