APPENDIX— HYMENOPTEB A. 89 



HYMENOPTERA. 



FORMICID^-E. 

 By TETER CAMEROX. 



Camponotus, Mayr. 



1. (Jamiionotus sijlvalicus, Oliv., Encycl. Meth., vi, p. 491. 



Hah. Penipe to EiijLamba (9000 feet). Several $ minor, Hacienda of 

 Guachala (9217 feet). Seven examples. 



The body is deep black ; tlie mandibles piceous to ferruginous ; antenna; 

 dark red ; the scape darker, and the legs pale reddish. Tliere is very little 

 hair on any part of the body, and the abdominal segments at their junction 

 are white. The species is very generally distributed over the old world, as 

 well as in America. 



2. G. atriceys, Smith, Cat. of Hymen., vi, p. 44, No. 147. 



Hah. Guayaquil (indoors). Numerous males. 



Some specimens have the thorax pallid rufo-testaceous, the liead for the 

 greater part black, the legs and antennoj coloured like the thorax, except 

 that the scape is darker and the coxte and trochanters paler ; the abdomen 

 at the base is dark testaceous, the apex fuscous. Other specimens have the 

 body and legs fuscous or fuscous-black, or dark lirown with the flagellum 

 and tarsi pallid testaceous. Most of the specimens have the abdominal 

 segments whitish at their junction. The texture of the body does not differ 

 from that of the ? or 9 , but tlie pilosity is less, especially on the thorax, 

 which may want it entirely. The wings are sometimes tinted with yellow 

 or pale fuscous anteriorly ; the ner\'nres pallid testaceous, pale brown or 

 whitish, and the stigma may l)e fuscous. 



3. C. Mayri, sp. n. 



Hab. Bodegas (level of sea). Two specimens. 



Black, opac^ue ; scape and first joint of flagellum pallid red ; mandililes 

 red, black at apex ; apical tarsal joints and trochanters j^iceous. Mandibles 

 with moderately large shallow punctures, with five teeth. Head minutely 

 and closely punctured, the punctuation stronger below the antennae. Thorax 



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