232 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xviii. 



shagreened and therefore appearing more shining than any other portions 

 of the body. 



Worker minor. — Length 5-6 mm. 



Closely resembling the worker major in color and sculpture, but the head 

 is somewhat more shining in front and has fewer piligerous foveolx on the 

 cheeks and clypeus. 



Female. — Length 8-8.5 mm. 



Head black ; antennal funiculi and mandibles, except their teeth, dark 

 brown ; thorax dark brown, pronotum, a large anteromedian and two elongate 

 parapsidal blotches on the mesonotum, border of the scutellum, the petiole 

 and the lower portions of the pleurse, black. Legs yellow, tibis and tarsi 

 brownish. Wings brownish, with pale yellowish brown veins and stigma. 

 Sculpture and pilosity of the head as in the worker major. 



Male. — Length 6-8 mm. 



Resembling the male of discolor. Wings like those of the female. 



This variety was first described from San Jacinto and Los 

 Angeles, Cala. I have seen specimens from the following localities : 



California: Los Angeles, worker minor cotype (Emery); Point 

 Loma, San Diego, nesting in stems of manzanita (Percy Leonard) ; 

 Whittier (A. H. Quayle) ; Felton, Santa Cruz Mts. and Three Rivers, 

 (J. C. Bradley). 



Illinois: Cherry Valley (Wheeler). 



Pennsylvania: Beatty (Jerome Schmitt). 



From the two latter states I have seen only a few major workers 

 and these differ from the California forms in having the head more 

 shining, but they are connected with the typical form by a soldier 

 from Whittier, Cala., which has the head more shining than in the 

 San Diego specimens, which are identical with the types. 



12. C. fallax discolor var. cnemidatus Emery. 



? Formica atra Buckley, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., VL 1866, p. 160, $. 

 Camponotus marginatus subsp. discolor var. cnemidatus Emery, Zool. 

 Jahrb. Abth. f. Syst., VH, 1893, P- 678, $. 



This variety, which I have not seen, was based on worker speci- 

 mens collected by Mr. Theo. Pergande at Washington, D. C. These 

 resembled clarithorax in sculpture but were " piceous black through- 

 out, with the mandibles, antennae, tarsi, tibiae and articulations of the 

 lees reddish brown." 



