174 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. 



53. Camponotus {Myrmoturha) maculatus Fabr. subsp. thoracicus 

 Fabr. var. xerxes Forel. y . — Zahleh, Syria. 



54. Camponotus {Myrmoturha) viaculatm Fabr. subsp. thoracicus 

 Fabr. var. sanctoides Forel. ^ — Wady Feran and Mt. Sinai, 

 Sinai Peninsula. 



55. Camponotus (Myrmoturha) maculatus Fabr. subsp. thoracicus 

 Fabr. var. mortis Forel. y . — Wady Feran, Sinai Peninsula. 



56. Camponotus (Myrmoturha) maculatus Fabr. subsp. sanctus Forel. 

 S. — Shiba, Bakeyas, El Katana, and Rasheya, Syria; Petra, 



Palestine. 



57. Camponotus (Myrmoturha) maculatus Fabr. subsp. turkestanicus 

 Ern. Andre. ^ . — Wady Hisa, Palestine. 



58. Camponotus (Myrmoturha) maculatus Fabr. subsp. haldaccii 

 Emery. ^ . — Baniyas, Syria. 



59. Camponotus (Myrmoturha) maculatus Fabr. subsp. aethiops Fabr. 

 var. concavus Forel. g . — Shiba, Syria; Mt. Herraon, Palestine. 



60. Camponotus (Orthonotomyrmex) lateralis Oliv. var. atricolor Nyl. 

 ^ . — Rasheya and Ammik, Syria. 



61. Camponotus (Orthonotomyrmex) interjectus Wsi\T. ^. — -Wady 

 Kerak, Palestine. 



62. Polyrhachis (Myrmhopla) simplex Mayr. y 9 cf . — Wady 

 Kerak, Palestine; Wady Feran, Sinai Peninsula. 



This species was very abundant in both of these localities, always 

 in damp places and always associated with a certain tree. In Wady 

 Feran several nests were seen on plants. These were made of portions 

 of leaves and twigs fastened together with films of silk. In Wady 

 El Katana, near the Dead Sea, the only nest found was beneath a stone 

 at the base of a tree. It contained many larvae, some of which were 

 lying on the ground, and others on a sheet of silk. On nearly every 

 tree in the vicinity of this nest there were many Membracidae which 

 were constantly attended by the Polyrhachis workers and in most 

 cases even sheltered in sheds' constructed by the ants. The workers 

 were observed while carrying the larvae up the trees and using them 

 to spin the silk of the sheds. 



