wheeler: JAMAICAN ANTS. 



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Sculpture, pilosity, and color much as in the maxima but the head 

 is entirely dark brown like the thorax and the hairs on the body and 

 appendages are somewhat shorter. 



Male. Length 5 mm. 



Head small and narroAV, a little broader behind than in front, 

 rounded and convex behind with straight cheeks as long as the very 

 convex eyes. Antennae slender. Epinotum evenly convex and 

 sloping, without distinct base and declivity. Petiole thick, with 

 very blunt, transyerse, entire dorsal surface. 



Fig. 2. Camponolus {Myrmosaga) maculalus Fabr. subsp. jamaicensis subsp. 

 nov. a, head of worker maxima, 6, head of worker minima, c, thorax and petiole 

 of worker maxima in profile. 



Head and thorax opaque, densely punctate. Petiole and gaster 

 shining, shagreened. 



Pilosity as in the worker; the long, erect hairs most abundant on 

 the gaster. 



Nearly black; antennal funiculi, mandibles, legs, sutures of thorax, 

 tibiae, and tarsi brown, femora darker. Wings slightly tinged with 

 brown anteriorly; veins and pterostigma pale brown. 



Described from several specimens from Newton, 3,000 ft. (type 

 locality); Liguanea Plain (Brues) and Mandeville (A. E. Wight). 



This form approaches the subspecies picipes Olivier and especially 



