In his recent revision of the world Amblyoponini, Brown(1960) states: "A. zwaluwenburgi is a minute species (under 2 mm total length) that was found in the soil of a sugar cane field at the Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association Experiment Station, Honolulu. I think it is likely that the species has been introduced into Hawaii from Melanesia or the East Indies." We concur in this opinion. Like the smaller species of the genus Ponera, the celata group of Amblyopone, to which zwaluwenburgi belongs, consists of tiny cryptobiotic species which are especially difficult to collect. As in the case of the Hawaiian "endemic" Ponera swezeyi, recently recorded from Samoa, future collecting will probably unearth Amblyopone zwaluwenburgioutside Hawaii, either in Samoa or in the chief faunal source areas west of Polynesia.