FORMICIDAE 357 



MONOMORIUM subgenus PARHOLCOMYRMEX Emery, p. 811 



destructor (Jerdon). 



Economics: Kempf, 1960. Studia Ent. 3: 506-507. 



Genus XENOMYRMEX Forel, p. 811 



Taxonomy: G. C. and J. Wheeler, 1960. Ent. Soc. Wash. Proc. 62: 19- 

 20 (larva). — Creighton, 1957. Amer. Mus. Novitates 1843: 1-14 

 (including key to species). 



florldanus floridanus Emery, changed status. Cuba, Bahamas. Another sub- 

 species, /. skwarrae W. M. Wheeler, occurs in Mexico. 

 Xenomyrmex stolli floridanus Emery. A subsp. of floridanus not a 

 subsp. of stolli Emery (teste Creighton, 1957, loc. cit. supra, p. 6). 



SOLENOPSIS subgenus SOLENOPSIS Westwood, pp. 812-813 



Taxonomy: Snelling, 1963. Calif. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent., Occas. Papers 



No. 3: 1-10, figs, 1-12 (keys to all castes). 

 Physiology: Blum, Walker, Callahan and Novak, 1958. Science 128: 



306-307 (chemical, insecticidal and antibiotic properties of fire 



ant venom). 



aurea W. M. Wheeler, changed status. 



Soleuopsis (Solenopsis) aurea amblychila W. M. Wheeler (syn. by Snell- 

 ing, 1963, loc. cit. supra, p. 7). 



aurea amblychila W. M. Wheeler. Syn. of aurea W. M. Wheeler. 



aurea aurea W. M. Wheeler. Raised to sp. rank. 



geminata geminata (Fabricius). 



Biology: Kempf, 1961. Studia Ent. 4: 507. 



saevissima richteri Forel. 



Taxonomy: Wilson, 1953. Evolution 7: 262-263, fig. 1 (origin of varia- 

 tion) .—Brown, 1957. Quart. Rev. Biol. 32: 258-261, figs. 4-7.— 

 Wilson and Brown, 1958. Evolution 12: 211-218, figs. 1-3, table 

 1 (morphological changes in introduced population). 



Biology: Wilson, 1958. Sci. Amer. 198: 36-41, maps, illus.— Green, 1962. 

 Jour. Econ. Ent. 55: 1003-1004, table 1. 



Morphology: Callahan, Blum and Walker, 1959. Ent. Soc. Amer. Ann. 

 52: 573-590, figs. 1-19 (also histology of poison glands and sting). 



Physiology: Caro, Derbes and Jung, 1957. Amer. Med. Assoc. Arch. 

 Derm. 75: 475-478, figs. 1-7.— Favorite, 1958. U. S. Pub. Health 

 Serv., Pub. Health Rpts. 73: 445-448.— Wilson, Durlach and Roth 

 1959 (1958). Psyche 65: 108-114 (chemical releases of necrophoric 

 behavior). — Wilson, 1959. Science 129: 643-644 (nature of odor 

 trail).— Wilson, 1962. Anim. Behavior 10: 134-147, figs. 1-8, 

 tables 1-4 (chemical communication among workers-mass forag- 

 ing) .—Blum and Callahan, 1960. XI Int. Kongr. F. Entom. Wien, 

 Verb. B. Ill: 290-293 (chemical and biological properties of 

 venom).— Wilson, 1962. Anim. Behavior 10: 148-158, figs. 1-5, 

 tables 1-2 (chemical communication among workers — analysis of 

 the odour trail). — Wilson, 1962. Ibidem, 159-164, table 1 (chemi- 

 cal communication among workers — induction of social responses) . 



xyloni McCook. Colo. 



Biology: Wray, 1962. Jour. Econ. Ent. 55: 145 (apparent introduction 



into N. C.) 

 Ecology: Gregg, 1963, loc. cit. supra, pp. 370-371, 373, map. 

 Physiology: Blum, Roberts and Novak, 1961. Psyche 68: 73-74 (chemical 



and biological characters of venom). 



SOLENOPSIS subgenus EUOPHTHALMA Creighton, p. 813 



globularia littoralis Creighton. 



Taxonomy: G. C. and J. Wheeler 1960, loc. cit. supra, p. 22 (larva). 



