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Iridomyrmex sp.  Taviuni

In the woods above Mackenzie's Place and on the crest of the mountains back of Waiyeoo and near the lake the species was common nesting always in Myrmecodia. One bulb which had been lying on the ground for six weeks - Mackenzie thinking it was an orchid & wanting the ants out - still had quantities of ants in it.

All the bulbs that I was able to examine - a half dozen - sheltered the ants. Sometimes a number of the plants are in a single tree.

Wainunu
Found in hollow twigs of "yasi yasi', a very hard wood

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Camponotus. Red from Bega, Nasauri, Lakeba Kadarn, etc.

Lives in crevices & beneath bark of 'ivi' tree, where it is always associated with a soft scale. Threads of fibrous material built over the scale are probably done by the ants, though the scale generally lives beneath bark.