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winged females make their appearance during late August and early 

 September. 



28. M. punctiventris pinetorum subsp. nov. 



The workers and females of this form are smaller, much paler in 

 color and much less heavily sculptured than the corresponding phases 

 of the typical species. The epinotal spines are shorter than the 

 epinotal declivity and not deflected at their tips. 



A single colony found nesting in pure sand in the pine barrens at 

 Lakehurst. 



29. M. rubra brevinodis Emery. — The M. sulcinodis Nyl. recorded 

 by Mayr from New Jersey is probably brevinodis or its var. sul- 

 cinodoides Emery, which should occur in the State. 



30. M. rubra scabrinodis Nyl. var. sabuleti Meinert. — New Jersey 

 (Emery) ; Fort Lee (Wheeler) . 



This variety of the palsearctic M. rubra scabrinodis is reddish in 

 color and in the male phase has a very long antennal scape which is 

 somewhat more than a third the length of the funiculus. It nests in 

 sandy or gravelly sunny places such as open pastures, road-sides, etc. 



31. M. rubra scabrinodis A7';y/ var. schencki Emery. — New Jersey 

 (Emery); New Brunswick (J. B. Smith); Lahaway (J. B. Smith); 

 Lakehurst (Wheeler). 



This form is cited in Smith's List under the name of the European, 

 form, M. lobicornis. The male has short, thick antennal scapes 

 which are shorter than those of sabuleti, being rarely longer than one 

 fourth of the funiculus. 



Pogononiyrmex Mayr. 



32. P. badius Latreille. — This ant, the "Florida harvester," is 

 recorded in Smith's List as occurring at Caldwell {teste Cresson). 

 This is certainly very far north but is not impossible as several 

 Floridian insects have been taken in New Jersey. 



P. badius is abundant in the vicinity of Jacksonville, Fla., where 

 I have made a few observations on its habits. Its nests are fiat 

 circular craters, 5-10 inches in diameter, with a central perpendicular 

 or somewhat inclined entrance and usually a lot of chaff about the 

 rim. This chafE is stripped from the stored seeds by the workers. 

 There is no circlet of living grass about the periphery of the craters, 

 which may be single or in groups and resemble those of P. comanche 

 in the sandy post-oak woods of Texas. The Florida species is peculiar 

 in having polymorphic workers. The big-headed major workers, 



