wheeler: the ants of cuba. 503 



70. Camponotus inaequalis Roger. 

 Berl. ent. zeitschr., 1863, 7, p. 147 § • 



Gundlach states that this species is common throughout the island. 

 His collection contains a male, a female, and five workers, four major 

 and one minor (no. 127). I was surprised to find on examining these 

 cotypes that they belong to the form which I described in a former 

 paper as C. zonatus Emery var. eburneus from the Bahamas and not 

 to the species which I referred to inaequalis (var. ramulorum) in the 

 same publication. On rereading Roger's description after examining 

 the cotypes, I am of the opinion that this author had before him a 

 series of both species and that he described the worker minor from a 

 specimen of this phase belonging to ramulorum and the worker media 

 and major and the female from specimens corresponding to my 

 eburneus. It seems best therefore to relegate this last form and 

 possibly also Emery's zonatus to the synonymy of inaequalis and to 

 regard ramulorum as a distinct species. It is not impossible that 

 Roger's series may also have included immature specimens of Forel's 

 santosi as this and the two other species are all closely related and 

 highly variable in color and may have been readily confounded by 

 Gundlach. I have not myself taken specimens of C. inaequalis in 

 Cuba but have received a number of workers and females taken in 

 Havana by Prof. C. F. Baker and Mr. F. Rose, and a few minor 

 workers taken by Mr. Patricio Cardin at Santiago de las Vegas. 



71. Camponotus ramulorum Wheeler. 



Camponotus inaequalis var. ramulorum Wheeler, Bull. Amer. mus. 

 nat. hist., 1905, 21, p. 114. 



Several colonies containing major and minor workers indistinguish- 

 able from those which I took in the Bahamas were found in hollow 

 twigs of the sea-grape (Coccoloba uvifera) and other small trees in the 

 coppices along the sea shore at Cogimar, near Havana. 



72. Camponotus ramulorum Wheeler var. mestrei, var. nov. 



This differs from the typical ramulorum and its variety marcidus 

 Wheeler in its smaller size and in coloration. The major worker 

 measures only 5.5-6.5 mm., the minor 3-4.5 mm. The brown color 



