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body, including the posterior margins of the gastric segments is black through- 

 out, with only the antennal funiculi, tarsi and articulations of the legs dark 

 brown or I'eddish. In many major workers, however, and especially in minor 

 workers, the mandibles, antennal scapes, legs, pleurae and petiole may vary 

 from very deep to pale red. 



Female. 



Resembling the worker major, but the whole thorax and gaster are more 

 shining, as in the female whymperi ; hairs and pubescence shorter than in the 

 worker major, especially on the gaster, which has the pubescence only a little 

 longer and denser than in whymperi. 



Male. 



Indistinguishable from the male of whymperi; black throughout, with only 

 the antennal funiculi and tarsi brown. Wings often as deeply tinged with 

 brown as in the female. 



I have examined many specimens of this well-known ant from the fol^ 

 lowing localities : 



Pennsylvania: North Mts., Bartram's Park, Philadelphia and Lehigh 

 Water Gap (C. Daecke). 



New York: Saranac Lake, Big Moose, Oswego, Nassau, Cedar Hill 

 and Keene Valley (N. Y. State Coll.) ; Ithaca (Cornell Univ. Coll.) ; 

 Garrison-on-Hudson (T. D. A. Cockerell) ; Bronxville and Cold Spring 

 Harbor, L. I. (Wheeler) ; Bergen Beach (G. von Krockow) ; West Farms 

 (J. Angus) ; Staten Island (W. T. Davis) ; Turin (Lucy Armstrong). 



New Jersey: Caldwell (E. T. Cresson) ; Eiverton (H. Viereck) ; Med- 

 ford and Westville (Phila. Acad. Coll.) ; North Woodbury and Delair 

 (C. Daecke) ; Newfoundland (W. T. Davis) ; Halifax and Fort Lee 

 (Wheeler). 



Maine: Mt. Katahdin (Hamlin) ; Bethel (Mus. Comp. ZooL). 



New Hampshire: Canobie Lake (G. B. King); Exeter (Mus. Comp. 

 ZooL). 



Vermont: Jay Peak (A. P. Morse). 



Massachusetts : Sherborn, Natick, Winchendon, Palmer, Needham, 

 Wellesley and West Eoxbury (A. P. Morse) ; Worcester, Haverhill, Cam- 

 bridge and Brookline (Mus. Comp. Zool.) ; Boston and Blue Hills 

 (Wheeler) ; Springfield and Essex County (G. B. King) ; Milton (Bost. 

 Soc. Nat. Hist.) ; Warwick (Miss Edmunds) ; Woods Hole (Miss A. 

 Fielde) . 



Connecticut: Woodmont (Butrick) ; New Haven and Branford (W. E. 

 Britton) ; Colebrook (Wheeler). 



Maryland: Chestertown and Pomona (H. Viereck) ; Washington, D. C. 

 (W. V. Warner). 



Virginia: Ashland (J. F. McClendon). 



