428 ANTS. 



size or neutralodor can move about unnoticed among their soft-bodied 



hosts. 



5. The following -pecies are closely allied to Solcnopsis and ( 'arc- 

 hum and in all probability enter int> similar ethological relations to 

 various specie- of termites: Ercbomynna longi (Fig. 257) of Texas 

 and perniiana of Peru; Carcbarclla bicolor and the species of Trano- 



FIG. 257. Ercbomynna longi. (Original.) a, Female: b, male: c. worker 

 drawn to same scale as male and female ; d, worker enlarged, dorsal view ; e, same, 

 lateral view. 



pelta of South America; the species of Oligomyrmc.r of India and 

 Australia, and Acromynna nossindambo of Madagascar. The follow- 

 ing, mainly Brazilian species, have also been recorded as living in 

 termite nests: Monomorium tcnnitobiitiu, hcycri and decamerum, 

 Cremastogaster alegrensis and quadriformis, Plicidole tcnnitobia, Tapi- 

 noina hcycri and Brachymyrmex ter.mitophilus. In the United States 

 Phcidolc lainui ( Fig. 258) and the various species of Stnunigcnys often 

 live, aj)parently as thief-ants, in the nests of other Formicidae. 



The tribe Solenopsidii, to which belong the above mentioned species 

 of Diploniorimn, Carcbara, Ercbomynna, Carcbarclla, Tranopelta, Oh- 



