PSYCHE 
Mus. m?. zooi 
LIBPAIY 
JAN 1 1 195 
Vol. 60 September, 1953 No. 3 
THE INDO-AUSTRALIAN SPECIES OF THE ANT 
GENUS STRUMIGENYS FR. SMITH: S. WALLACEI 
EMERY AND RELATIVES^ 
By William L. Brown, Jr. 
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 
This is another part of my continuing revision of the 
dacetine ant genus Strumigenys. Here are discussed three 
species of the szalayi group, one of which is described as 
new. The other species of the group will be treated in a 
later paper in the series. The abbreviations for measure- 
ments and proportions are explained in previous parts of 
the revision: see Psyche 60: 1 (1953). Deposition of cer- 
tain types is indicated by capitals in brackets as follows: 
United States National Museum [USNM], Museum of Com- 
parative Zoology, Harvard University [MCZ]. 
Strumigenys nidifex Mann 
Strumigenys nidifex Mann, 1921, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 
Harvard, 6 A: 464, fig. 23, all castes. 
This very large, dark brown species is found only on a 
few of the larger islands of the Fijian Group. The original 
description permits easy recognition ; the ant is larger than 
any other species known from the Indo-Australian area, 
although Mann’s measurements are a bit too low. I have 
recently received specimens from Mr. N. L. H. Krauss taken 
at Navai, Viti Levu. It nests under stones, where it builds 
reticulately patterned nests with mud, or in rotten wood 
[USNM, MCZ]. 
Strumigenys wallacei Emery 
Strumigenys Wallacei Emery, 1897, Term. Fuzetek 20 : 
575, 578, pi. 14, fig. 7, worker. 
^ Published with a grant from the Museum of Comparative Zoology 
at Harvard College. 
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