Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College . 306 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. moving in and out of the crevices of a large block of coral on the beach.^Ir. Harry Hall, win) brought me specimens from Simoli on SouthMalaita, states that he found it there nesting under the same condi-tions. Myrmicinae. 34. SiAL\ (Tetraponera) humerosa Emery. Ann. Mus. civ. stor. nat. Geneva, 1900, 40, p. 674, ^ .Ysabel: Fulakora. 35. Pheidoi,e (Pheidolacanthinus) belli, sp. nov. Worker. Length mm. Head about as long as broad, with convex sides and nearly straight occipitalbo
Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College . 306 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. moving in and out of the crevices of a large block of coral on the beach.^Ir. Harry Hall, win) brought me specimens from Simoli on SouthMalaita, states that he found it there nesting under the same condi-tions. Myrmicinae. 34. SiAL\ (Tetraponera) humerosa Emery. Ann. Mus. civ. stor. nat. Geneva, 1900, 40, p. 674, ^ .Ysabel: Fulakora. 35. Pheidoi,e (Pheidolacanthinus) belli, sp. nov. Worker. Length mm. Head about as long as broad, with convex sides and nearly straight occipitalborder. Mandibles with ten small teeth. Clypeus convex; anterior borderbroadly rounded. Antennal scapes surpassing occipital corners by aboutone fifth their length; first funicular joint longer than the two succeedingjoints together; joints two to eight a little longer than broad; club slender,sUghtly shorter than the remainder of funiculus. Eyes small, convex, situateda Uttle in front of middle of sides of head. Pronotum flattened at middle,. Fig. 14.— Pheidole (Pheidolacanlhus) belli Mann. Worker. armed with a pair of very long and slender spines that extend outward andforward and are rather strongly curved downward at tips. Base of epinotumas long as declivity, flat; epinotal spines as long as those of pronotum, outward and backward and rather strongly curved downward at long and slender; node in profile triangular, gradually sloping into thepedicle; from above, as long as broad, with the sides subconulate. Post-petiole longer than broad, wth slightly convex sides. Gaster long and rathernarrow. Legs long and slender. MANN: ANTS OF THE UKlTISIl SOLOMON ISLANDS. 3()7 Shining tliroughuut, and smooth, except for very fine scattered punctureson head and tliorax and deHcato rugulae on apical part of mesonotum; baseof first gastric segment witli very broad and sliallow foveolate punctures. Sparse, long, erect pile scattered on head, body, and appendages. Bl
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