Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College . ar MANN: ANTS OF THK UllITISII SOLOMON ISIANDS. 289 joint is longer than broad ami the remaining joints are as long as the closely related K nrjila Kmery the third joint is describedas being as long as broad, the remaining apical joints, except thetenninal are transverse and the mandibular blades have only five two species are evidently very closely related and it is probal)lethat Fords dalili from the Bismarck Archipelago is only a subspeciesof, if not identical with, cvarnta. In the specimens before me the
Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College . ar MANN: ANTS OF THK UllITISII SOLOMON ISIANDS. 289 joint is longer than broad ami the remaining joints are as long as the closely related K nrjila Kmery the third joint is describedas being as long as broad, the remaining apical joints, except thetenninal are transverse and the mandibular blades have only five two species are evidently very closely related and it is probal)lethat Fords dalili from the Bismarck Archipelago is only a subspeciesof, if not identical with, cvarnta. In the specimens before me the first gastric segment is heavilystrigose longitudinally and the second segment is much more delicatelysculptured, as described in the three forms mentioned above. Ysabel: Fulakora. 14a. EcTOMOMYRMEx EXARATA Emery, subsp. .\equalis, subsp. nov. ]\orkir. Length mm. Differing from the typical form in its somewhat smaller size and in havingthe striae of the second gastric segment not appreciably finer than that of thefirst, though with fewer punctures Fig. 7.— Ectomomyrmex exarata aequalis Mann. Worker. Lateral view of thoraxand petiole. Described from several workers taken at Auki, Malaita and one atTulagi, Florida. The Auki specimens were together and evidentlybelonged to the same colony, but I was unable to locate the —M. C. Z. 9,155. The species of Ectomomyrmex in their timid behaviour are similarto Bothroponeta. 290 m : museum of comi>ah.\tive zoology. 15. E UPON ERA (Mesoponera) papuana Viehmeyer. Zool. jahr., 1914, 37, p. 608, ^ . ]]ork(r. Lengtli ().o-8 mm. Head one and three fourth times longer than broad, as broad in front asbehind; sides subparallel; occipital angles narrowly rounded, the borderfeebly concave. Clypeus very broadly and prominently carinate, the anteriorborder angulate at middle. Mandibles long and slender, with eleven stoutteeth. Frontal carinae very short; their lobes little dilated and flat; thenarrow frontal dep
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