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PSYCHE 
[April-Jime 
NEW ANTS FROM NEW ENGLAND. 
liY \VILLI.\M MORTON WHEELER. 
While preparing a list of the ants of New England for the Boston Society 
of Natural History, I have come upon the following new fomis in the Museum 
of Comparative Zoology collection kindly sent me for study by Mr. Samuel 
Henshaw, in a collection of Massachusetts ants made by Mr. A. P. Morse, 
and among the material collected by myself at Woods Hole, Massachusetts 
and Colebrook, Connecticut : 
1. Mynnica rubra laeiiuodis Nylander var. brucsi var. nov. 
A number of workers, females and males taken by Air. C. T. Brues and 
myself during igoo and 1903 from a few large colonies nesting under stones 
at the edge of Fay's Woods, Woods Hole, Alass., agree very closely with 
European specimens of M. hici'iiiodis from Russia, .Austria, Germany, England 
and Scotland in my collection. The thora.x of the workers of the .American 
form is smoother, more shining and less regularly sculptured than in the 
European specimens, but I am unalile to find any other differences of im- 
portance, and therefore establish this variety with some hesitation. I should 
be inclined to regard it as directly imported from Europe were it not that 
I’orel has described two subsijecies of . 1 /. rubra (M. iicolacz'iiwdis and 
M. champlaini) from New' A’ork and Canada respectively, both allied to the 
European laczdiiodis but with distinctive characters. The former has short 
antennse, with the tips of the scapes extending only a short distance beyond 
the posterior corners of the head, the latter has very short epinotal spines. It 
thus appears that .America possesses indigenous forms closely related to 
laevinodis, just as it has long been known to possess numerous varieties of 
the other boreal and subboreal subspecies of M . rubra. 
2, Lasius flaz'iis ncarcticus subsp. nov. 
Lasius flaz'us Emery, Zool. Jahrb. .Abth. f. Syst. \T 1 , 1893, p. 640, 
Lasius flavus siibsp. myops Emery, ibid. VIII, 1894, p. 334. 
Lasius myops Wheeler, Bull. .Anr. AIus. Nat. Hist. XXI, 1905, p. 397. 
This form, which Emery and myself have been regarding as L. flaz'us 
myops Ford, originally describal from the Alediterranean Region, is certainly 
distinct, as I find by comparison of workers from Illinois, Alassachusetts, Con- 
necticut, New A'ork and New Jersey w ith three typical w'orkers kindly sent me 
by Professor Ford. .According to this authority uiyops is distinguished from 
