340 ANNALS NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



31. C. herculeanus ligniperda Latreille var. noveborac6nsis Fitch 



Formica novceboracensis Fitch, Trans. N. Y. State Agri. Soc, XIV, p. 52, ^, 

 1854. 



Camponotus herculeanus race ligniperdus var. pictus Forel, Bull. Soc. Vaud. 

 Sci. Nat, (2) XVI, P. 81, p. 59, ^ $ 5, 1879; Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., XXX, p. 

 141, ^ 5, 1886. 



C. herculeanus subsp. ligniperdus var. pictus Emery, Zool. Jahrb. Abth. f. 

 Syst, VII, p. 674, 1893; VP'heeler, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist, XXI, p. 402, 

 1905. 



C. ligniperda var. pictus Dalla Toree, Catalog. Hymen., VII, p. 240, 1893. 



C. herculeanus race ligniperdus var. novehoracensis Foeel, Ann. Soc. Ent 

 Belg., XLIII, p. 447, 1899. 



C. herculeanus ligniperdus var. noveioracensis Wheeler, Occas. Papers Bost 

 Soc. Nat Hist., VII, 7, p. 23, 1907. 



Worker major and minor. 



Sculpture finer and more superficial than in whymperi and pennsylvanicus, 

 so that the whole surface of the body and especially the gaster is smoother 

 and more shining. Hairs and pubescence pale yellow or white, sparse and 

 short ; the pubescence on the gaster being nearly as short as in whymperi and 

 decidedly more dilate ; the minute hairs on the scapes and legs more appressed. 

 Head, antennae and gaster black ; thorax, petiole and legs red, the tibiae and 

 tarsi often somewhat darker. Posterior edges of gastric segments yellowish. 

 In the worker media and minima, the mandibles and sometimes also the 

 clypeus are red. 



Female. 



Resembling the worker major, but the thorax and gaster very smooth and 

 shining ; the latter with shorter hairs and very short and dilute pubescence. 

 Dorsal portion of pronotum, scutellum, metauotum and three more or less dis- 

 tinct longitudinal bands on the mesonotum, black. In some specimens, the 

 whole mesonotum and dorsal portion of the epinotum are black. Extreme base 

 of first gastric segment often red or yellow. In other respects, the color is like 

 that of the worker. Wings strongly tinged with yellowish brown ; veins and 

 stigma yellow. 



Male. 



Indistinguishable from the male of pennsylvanicus. Wings somewhat paler 

 than in the female. 



Of this variety I have examined specimens from the following locali- 

 ties: 



:^ova Scotia: Digby (J. Eusscll) ; Bedford (W. Eeiff). 



Maine: West Beach (Mus. Comp. Zool.) ; South Harpswell (Wheeler). 



New Hampshire: Mt. Washington, summit (Mrs. A. T. Slosson and 

 C. S. Bacon) ; White Mts. (W. F. Fiske) ; Canobie Lake (G. B. King) : 

 Exeter (Mus. Oomp. Zool.) ; Pelham (Bridwell) ; Hanover (C. M. 

 Weed) ; Durham. 



