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North Carolina: Black Mts. (W. Beutenmueller) ; Lake Toxaway 

 (Mrs. A. T. Slosson). 



Georgia: Clayton, 2000-3700 ft. (W. T. Davis). 



North Dakota : Ellison (Miller). 



South Dakota: Medicine Eoot, Pine Eidge Ind. Ees. (Thompson). 



Wisconsin: Milwaukee (Wheeler). 



Michigan: Battle Creek. 



Illinois: Urbana (Pricer) ; Mossville (F. Blake); Algonquin (W. A. 

 Nason) ; Eockford (Wheeler). 



Indiana: Arlington and De Long (W. S. Blatchley). 



Tennessee: Springdale (C. C. Adams). 



Missouri: St. Louis (C. F. Baker). 



Kansas: Ottawa (E. G. Titus). 



Arkansas: Fort Smith (A. W. Morrill). 



Oklahoma: Ponca City (A. C. Burrill). 



Texas: Austin (Wheeler); Meridian and Beaumont (W. H. Long); 

 Brownwood (J. C. Crawford) ; Joaquin, Longview and Lovelady (W. W. 

 Yothers and E. S. Tucker) ; Victoria (J. D. Mitchell) ; Calvert (C. E. 

 Jones) ; Dallas (W. D. Hunter and F. C. Pratt) ; Palestine (F. C. 

 Bishopp). 



Louisiana: Logansport (W. D. Pierce); Shreveport and East Point 

 (F. C. Bishopp) ; Baton Eouge (W. Newell) ; Mansfield (W. D. Hun- 

 ter) ; Orange (E. C. Howell) ; Natoches (Cushman and Pierce). 



Ontario: Toronto (E. J. Crew). 



Quebec: Montreal (T. D. A. Cockerell). 



Worker specimens from St. Louis, Missouri, and from some of the 

 Texas localities, notably from the vicinity of Austin, have a peculiar 

 brown tinge to the body, and the legs and antennae are much paler than 

 in the typical form of the subspecies, but I have not deemed it advisable 

 to separate them as an independent variety. 



From the foregoing list of localities, which might be very easily in- 

 creased, it will be seen that C. pennsylvanicus ranges over southern 

 Canada and the states as far west as Victoria, Texas, and the Pine Eidge 

 Indian Eeservation in South Dakota. Unlike ivhymperi and modoc it is 

 a lowland form. It is far and away the most abundant Camponotus in 

 the North Atlantic states and Middle West, showing a range of adapta- 

 bility to differences in temperature and humidity second only to that of 

 Lasius americanus and Formica subserica. On this account, it is the 

 only one of our Camponoti that has attracted general attention. It is 

 commonly found nesting in old logs and stumps or in the dead wood of 

 standing trees, but occasionally it nests in old houses. In such places it 



