ART. 13. ANTS FROM HONDURAS AND GUATEMALA MANN. 51 



Type-locality. — Kondiiras : San Pedro Siila, San Juan Pueblo. 



Cotypes.—Q?it. No. 24467, U.S.N.M. 



Described from a large series of workers and one female, collected 

 from nests in rotten wood. 



This species is near mayri., differing from it in the more slender 

 petiole and in having the hairs on the scape curved at the tips toward 

 the surface, instead of being straight and obliquely divergent. 



APTEROSTIGMA COLLARE Emery. 



Honduras : Lombardia, San Juan Pueblo, Choloma, Tela, San Pedro 

 Sula. 



An abundant species occurring in moderate-sized colonies in rotten 

 wood. 



ATTA CEPHALOTES (Linnaeus). 



Honduras : Generally distributed and abundant. 



I saw comparatively little damage done to citrus by this ant in 

 Honduras. In several native plantations files of workers were busy 

 cutting the leaves, but no trees had been completely defoliated. The 

 one large commercial plantation (at Ceiba) seemed to be free from the 

 ants. Other plants were badly attacked, and I saw one patch of young 

 cocoa trees entirely stripped of leaves. The Hondurian name for this 

 species is " wee-wee." 



Subfamily Dolichoderinae. 



DOLICHODEUUS (HYPOCLINEA) LUT03US F. Smith. 



Honduras: Choloma, Lombardia. 



At Choloma this species was nesting in tho hollowed parts of pine 

 trees. 



There is a great deal of variation in color among the workers, more 

 especially in the amount of infuscation on the gaster, but in all speci- 

 mens the apical borders are distinctly darker than the remainder. 



ACTECA INSTABILIS F. Smith. 



Honduras: Cecilia, San Juan Pueblo, Progresso. 



AZTECA INSTABILIS F. Smith, variety MEXICANA Emery. 



Honduras: Choloma. 



One colony found in a hollow stump of a pine tree. 



AZTECA ALFAROI Emery. 



Honduras: Choloma, Ignacio. 



This is the species most common in a local Cecropia (the " Guar- 

 uma," of the Hondurianians), where it occurs in large colonies. In 

 one instance I collected from one Cecropia seven dealated females of 



