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[[start page]] Camponotus laminatus Mayr. [[image - hand-drawn Mercury element symbol]] L. 6mm. Castaneo - fer; mandibles, antennae & apex of tarsi ferrugineous, shinning, sparsley pilose, Head & gaster black, mandibles ferrugen- eous; head anteriorly obscurely red; tarsi fuscous. Mandibles densely, finely striate; sparsely punctate, with blade [[indistinctly]] dentate. Head finely rugalose, above hardly convex; occiput slightly emarginate. Llypens not carinate, not produced or exised. Thorax finely rugalose. [[Meso]], base of epinatum compressed, into vertical lamella, [[posteriorly]] produced into a triangular tooth, [[com]] Petiole scali. like, sub-[[guad]] rangular, convex in front, flat behind, upper margin acute. Gaster finely transversly rugalose striate, with some erect long yellowish hairs & very sparse pubesence. Legs erect pile. Tibriu compressed & dilated. 1 -[[hand-drawn Mercury symbol]] Ovalau. [[end page]] [[start page]] Camponotus schmeltzi Mayr. L. 5.4mm. Black, shining. tips of mandibles ferrugineous; antennae fuscous; legs rufo- castaneous. Mandibles sparsley punctate; distinctly striate at apex. Head finely rugulose, with a few erect hairs,& long apposed pubescence; above & below strongly convex; [[vestex]] distinctly depressed, moderately emarginati. Thorax finely rugalose, without erect hairs with sparce yellow pubescence, Meso & base of epinotum compressed Petiole sub-[[cubical]], weak, depressed convex in front, the disc above rounded, triangular. Gaster densely finely rugalose striate transversly, with moderately abundant long erect hairs & shorter sparse pubescence. Legs without hair. [[hand-drawn Mercury symbol]] Ovalau.
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Ovalau at the bottom of the page is an island in Fiji, likely where the specimen was collected.