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workers with the upper surface of the head and a spot on the pro- and 

 mesonotum fuscous. Gaster black, anal region, and often also in 

 large individuals, the base of the first segment, dull reddish. 



Described from numerous workers from Chung-King, Western 

 China, (Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. Coll.). 



This variety is evidently very close to yessensis Forel, but the 

 antennal scapes are very smooth and without any traces of oblique 

 hairs, the color is very deep and the distribution of the hairs is 

 peculiar, especially their absence on the whole upper surface of the 

 head and clypeus and their nearly complete absence on the convex 

 portions of the pro- and mesonotum. 



34. F. TRUNCicoLA DusMETi Emery. 



F. rufa dusmeti Emery, Deutsch. ent. zeitschr., 1909, p. 188, S ; Forel, Rev. 

 Suisse Zool., 1911, 19, p. 457, 458. 



Worker. Resembling the typical truncicola in its light red colora- 

 tion; head and thorax red, without spots or with a blackish spot on 

 the front; gaster quite opaque, black, with red basal spot; antennae 

 and legs brown, scapes and femora red. Head and thorax entirely 

 without erect hairs ; eyes hairless ; gaster covered with rather abun- 

 dant short hairs. 



This subspecies, based on three specimens collected by Dusmet 

 at Penalosa, in Spain, has recently been taken in Norway by Forel. 

 According to Emery, it is very similar to the North American F. 

 truncicola Integra Nyl. 



35. F. truncicola integroides Emery. 



F. rufa subsp. ohscuriventris Mayr. var. integroides Emery, Zool. jahrb. Syst., 

 1893, 7, p. 649, 9 , Wheeler, Ants, 1910, p. 570. 



Worker. Length 3.5-8 mm. 



Body, including the mandibles and clypeus, opaque. Mandibles 

 densely and sharply striate, with scattered punctures. Frontal 

 area smooth, only slightly shining. Clypeus sharply carinate. Thorax 

 and petiole much as in the typical truncicola, but base of epinotum 

 somewhat more convex. 



Pubescence yellowish, dense, distinct on the head and thorax, long 

 and conspicuous on the gaster, sparse on the legs. Hairs golden yel- 

 low, very sparse on the upper surface of the head, thorax, and petiole, 



