. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology; Zoology. MANN: W l> ! I III. ISLANDS. 17:, middle of anterior border. Antenna! scapes surpassing occipital corn< ra by a little Less than half their Length. Thorax Btout. M ssonotum Bat, but Little Longer than broad. Mesoepinotal impression broad .-»i m I deep. Basal portion of epinotum convex, broad, about as loniz as declivity and broadly rounding into it. Node rather thick, cuneiform, moderately inclined forward. Shining. Mandibles sparsely punctate. Front and vertex with coarse, setigerous punctures. P
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology; Zoology. MANN: W l> ! I III. ISLANDS. 17:, middle of anterior border. Antenna! scapes surpassing occipital corn< ra by a little Less than half their Length. Thorax Btout. M ssonotum Bat, but Little Longer than broad. Mesoepinotal impression broad .-»i m I deep. Basal portion of epinotum convex, broad, about as loniz as declivity and broadly rounding into it. Node rather thick, cuneiform, moderately inclined forward. Shining. Mandibles sparsely punctate. Front and vertex with coarse, setigerous punctures. Pilosity arranged as follows: Long :iih1 abundant on head and gaster and mixed with shorter, fine, sparse, semi- erect hairs. Prothorax with four pairs and mesothorax with two pairs of coarse hairs, tin1 outer pairs on tin1 pronotum shorter than the inner ones; short, erect, and fine hairs sparsely distributed on appendages. Color brownish yellow, with the tips of antennae paler and the gaster somewhat Male. Length mm. Fig. 28.— Prenolepia (Nylanderia) vitiensis Mann. Male. Genitalia. Head, excluding eyes, distinctly longer than broad, sides in front of i convergent. Eyes about three times as long as their distance to base of mandibles. Clypeus convex, its anterior border very broadly and shallowly concave. Mandibles well developed, their blades distinctly denticulate. Antenna! si apes surpassing occipital corners by about half their Length. Thorax robust, broadest in front of wing insertions. Metanotum in profile sloping above, nearly straight, with the base, a little Longer than the declivous portion. Petiole low, rather thickly cuneiform, rounded above. Genitalia with squamulae a little shorter than the stipes, nearly straight at tips; stipes elongate, curved, narrowly rounded at tips; volsellae broadly spear-head shaped; sagittae slender, with the ends narrowly rounded. Kadavu: Vunisea. The worker- resemble some small Tongan specimens of P. vividula in t
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