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CHI^^ESE AXTS COLLECTED BY PKOF. C. W. HOWAED.^ 



By William Morton Wheeler. 



Since the publication of my paper on Chinese ants- Professor 

 C. W. Howard has sent me a small collection made in Canton and 

 the immediate vicinity. The collection comprises two very inter- 

 esting undescribed species and several others which have not been 

 previously recorded from China. 



PONERIN^E. 



1. Stictoponera menadensis Mayr subsp. hicolor Emery ^ — 

 Two specimens from Leng-oo, near Canton. 



2. Diacamma rugosum Guill. subsp. geometricum Sm. var. 

 anceps Emery. ^ — ISTumerous specimens from Canton. 



3. clontoponera transversa Sm. 5 — Several specimens from 

 Canton and Honan Island, on which Canton College is situated. 



4. Edontomyrmex astidtis Sm. ^ — A single specimen from 

 Leng-oo. 



5. Leptogenys (Lohopelta) diminnta Sm. 5 — Five specimens 

 from Leng-oo. 



PSEUDOMYRMINiE. 



6. Tetraponera allahorans Walk. ? — A single dealated speci- 

 men froui Honan Island. 



Myrmicin.^. 



7. MonoDiorknn pharaonis L. § 9 — Many specimens from 

 Canton. 



8. Monomorium carbonarium Sm. 5 — Eleven specimens from 

 Canton. 



9. Cardiocondyla nuda Mayr. g — Three specimens from 

 Canton. 



10. Crematogaster rogenhoferi Mayr. ^ 9 — Several specimens 

 from Canton. 



11. Crematogaster hiroi Mayr. ^ — Two specimens from Canton. 



12. Pheidologeton diversus Jerd. ^ ? — Many workers and a 

 single soldier from Canton. One lot of workers attending scale- 

 insects. 



1 Contributions from tlie Entomological Laboratory of the Bussey Institu- 

 tion, Harvard University. No. 194. 



2 Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 64, 1921, pp. 529-547. 



