ANT COMMUNITIES 



This genus has representatives in the Eastern United 

 States Pheidole pennsylvanicus and Ph. meyacephala. 

 The author has made some notes of the habits and nest 

 architecture of the former in his studies of the Occident 

 ant. [McC. 4, p. 140.] As it is a harvesting ant, the 



Fig. 82 THE FLORIDA HARVESTER (POGONOMYRMEX CRUDELIS) 



1. Soldier worker. 2. Uiiwinged queen. 3. Worker major. 



4. Worker minor. 



massive heads of the soldiers may be utilized for the 

 same service as those of P. instabilis. Another ant, 

 the Florida harvester, Pogonomyrmex crudelis (Fig. 82), 

 which garners seeds, has large-headed soldiers, which 

 perhaps may be found also to unite the function of po- 

 licemen with that of trenchers. [McC. 3, pi. ix, Fig. 41.] 

 The genus Atta contributes examples of species pro- 

 vided with soldiers with exagge r ated cephalic enlarge- 



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