wheeler: the ants of cuba. 493 



38. Pheidole flavens Roger. 

 Berl. ent. zeitschr., 1863 7, p. 198, % 8 . 



The types of this species, according to Gundlach, were taken in 

 Cogimar, near Havana. His collection contains two female, one 

 soldier, and two worker cotypes, bearing the no. 289. I have taken 

 this species in the type locality and also in several localities in the 

 Cienaga de Zapata (Rio de Hanabana, Sarabanda, and San Francisco 

 de Morales) and in Mr. Sanborn's garden at the ingenio "Armonia," 

 near Bolondron. There is a worker specimen in my collection from 

 Cayamas (E. A. Schwarz). 



39. Solenopsis geminata (Fabricius). 



Atta geminata Fabr., Syst. Piez., 1804, p. 423 9 . 



According to Gundlach, this ant occurs in many localities in the 

 island and is known as "hormiga brava" on account of its sting. 

 In his note-book he cites it from Cardenas, Havana, and Casilda. 

 There are in the collection five workers, one female, and a male 

 bearing the no. 132. I found this ant more or less abundant in all of 

 the localities I visited (Cogimar, Aguada de Pasajeros, Bolondron, 

 Cienaga de Zapata) and have received specimens from Galatre in the 

 Province of Pinar del Rio (T. E. Holloway and G. N. Wolcott), 

 Havana (C. F. Baker), and Baracoa (Aug. Busck). All of the speci- 

 mens I have examined belong to the typical dark form of the species. 

 It seems to be very common in the sugar plantations. In the fields of 

 the ingenio "Maria Victoria" near Aguada de Pasajeros it was seen 

 in great numbers attending large coccids which were evidently very 

 injurious to the cane. 



40. Solenopsis globularia (F. Smith) var. cubaensis, var. nov. 



Worker. Closely resembling the var. borinquenensis Wheeler from 

 Porto Rico, but even darker in color, the body being black, with the 

 ventral portions of the head, thorax, and pedicel, the clypeus, man- 

 dibles, and anterior border of the head, the antennae, legs, sutures 

 of the thorax, and apical margins of the gastric segments brownish 

 yellow. The postpetiole is distinctly smaller and less transverse than 



