Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College . riate andrugulose. Petiole, postpetiole, and first gastric segment sculptured as inworker. Hairs jellowish, long and moderately abundant. Ferruginous; wings infuscated. Ysabel: Fulakora. Described from specimens taken from a colony found beneath a — 9,161. The closely related P. laminata Emery from Xew Guinea differs inhaving the frontal lamellae produced more angularly in front and inits much smaller size. In mendanai, as in laminata and cryptoceraEmery the gaster is microscopically scabrose and subopaque. 39. P
Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College . riate andrugulose. Petiole, postpetiole, and first gastric segment sculptured as inworker. Hairs jellowish, long and moderately abundant. Ferruginous; wings infuscated. Ysabel: Fulakora. Described from specimens taken from a colony found beneath a — 9,161. The closely related P. laminata Emery from Xew Guinea differs inhaving the frontal lamellae produced more angularly in front and inits much smaller size. In mendanai, as in laminata and cryptoceraEmery the gaster is microscopically scabrose and subopaque. 39. Pheidole ISIS, sp. no mm. Head a fourth longer than broad, sides parallel; posterior border deeplyconcave at middle and vertex verj- strongly impressed transversely, so that 312 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. the posterior corners stand out prominently, somewhat lobiform. Mandiblesthick, outer border straight at middle, blades edentate. Clypeus flat, concaveat anterior border, strongly carinate. Frontal area deeply impressed. Frontal. Fig. 16.— Pheidolc isis Maim. Soldier. LatRral view of head, thorax, and petiole. lamellae flat, dilated; frontal carinac strong, expanded laterally, a little longerthan the scapes, and bordering a broad scrobe capable of containing the entirescape (similar to cryptocera Emery). Antennae short, their scapes extendingless than half the distance to occipital corners; funicular joints two to eightstrongly transverse; club moderate, shorter than remainder of small (about fifteen facets) and convex, situated at sides of head well infront of middle. Promesonotmn without suture, about as broad as long, sidesstrongl}^ produced conically and ending in stout tri-angular spines; sides of mesothorax obtusely angulate,posterior portion perpendicular to the mesoepinotalimpression. Epinotum concave between the spines,which are stout, about as long as their distance apartat base and extending upward and backward andsl
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