wheeler: the ants of cuba. 483 



I have taken it at Cogimar, near Havana, Aguada de Pasajeros, 

 Bolondron, and at several localities in the Cienaga de Zapata (Sara- 

 banda, Rio Hanabana, and San Francisco de Morales) and have seen 

 specimens from Baracoa (Aug. Bnsck), .Havana (C. H. Eigenmann) 

 and El Guama, in the Province of Pinar del Rio (Palmer and Riley). 

 It is certainly one of the commonest of Cuban ants, nesting under 

 stones and logs or in indistinct crater nests about the roots of plants. 

 Winged females were found in several of the nests during the first 

 weeks of February. 



10. Odontomachus haematoda (Linne) subsp. insularis Guerin 



var. ruginodis Wheeler. 



Bull. Amer. mus. nat. hist., 1905, 21, p. 82 8 9 . 



This variety, which is darker than the preceding and has the pos- 

 terior surface of the petiole transversely rugose, was taken in the 

 Botanical Garden in the city of Havana. I have also received speci- 

 mens from the Province of Havana (C. F. Baker) and from Cayamas 

 (E. A. Schwarz). 



MYRMICINAE. 



11. Pseudomyrma latinoda* Mayr var. opacior Forel. 

 Ann. Soc. ent. Belg., 1904, 48, p. 170 8 . 



This variety was described from a single worker from Cuba (coll. 

 Ballion ex coll. Puis). It is allied to the var. nigrescens Forel but 

 differs from this and from the typical form of the species in having 

 the body, and especially the head, more strongly punctate and from 

 nigrescens in having the epinotum less angular. Forel was in doubt 

 as to whether opacior should not rank as a subspecies. 



12. Pseudomyrma pallida F. Smith. 

 Trans. Ent. soc. London, 1855, ser. 2, 3, p. 159 8 . 



Gundlach took this species in the environs of Cardenas. He states 

 that it and the other species of the genus are popularly called " muer- 

 dehuye." His note-book adds the localities Guanabo and Yatimo. 



