1906.] Wheeler, The A. nts of Japan. 325 



Forel has seen specimena from Osaka and also from southern Ussuri, 

 Sidemi, Western China. Bingham has recorded it from the Karen 

 and Shan Hills, Burma. Emery has noted its occurrence in the 

 Philippines (Mindanao). He has also described two very similar 

 Asiatic varieties of her ciile anus , namely pitnctatissiniiis from Burma 

 (Carin Cheba, 900-1100 m.) and aterrimns from Eastern Siberia. It 

 may be admissible to attach these to the subspecies japonicus, which 

 would then include all the East Asiatic hercideanus, — even the variety 

 sachalinensis Forel {vide infra), — -excepting the forms that are refer- 

 able to the subspecies ligniperdus . 



45. Camponotus herculeanus Linn. var. sachalinensis Forel. 

 Forel, Ann. Mus. Zool. Acad. Imper. Sc. St. Petersb., VIII, 1903, p. 14, 9 



Based on female specimens only, collected in ^longolia, Manchuria 

 and Sakhalin. According to Forel, this variety "differs from the 

 typical herculeanus in its entirely black color (mandibles included) 

 and its feeble sculpture, which renders it smooth and more shining. 

 The pubescence on the gaster is also shorter and sparser. These last 

 characters ally this variety with ligniperdus, . from which it differs 

 however in color and the more thickset stature which is identical with 

 that of herculeanus. The wings are exactly like those of the typical 

 herculeanus and very different from those of ligniperdus and vagus. 

 The sculpture and pilosity separate this variety completely from 

 pennsylvanicus and vagus." 



46. Camponotus herculeanus ligniperdus Latreille var. obscuripes 



Mayr. 



Camponotus ligniperdus var. obscuripes Mayr, Verhandl. zool. bot. Ges. 

 Wien, XXVIII, 1878, p. 645, $ 



Camponotus ligniperdus var. obscuripes Forel. Bull. Soc. Ent. Suisse, X, 7, 

 1900, p. 270. 



Camponotus ligniperdus var. obscuripes Forel, Mittheil. naturhist. Mus. 

 Hamburg, XVIII, 1901, p. 70. 



Camponotus ligniperdus var. obscuripes Ern. Andre, Bull. Mus. d'Hist. 

 Natur. Paris, 1903, p. 128, 9 d^ 



Of this variety, which is not represented in the material collected 

 by Mr. Hans Sauter and Professor J. F. Abbott, Forel e.Kamined 

 specimens from Osaka. 



47 . Camponotus marginatus vitiosus F. Smith. 



Camponotus vitiosus F. Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1874, p. 403, ^ 

 Camponotus marginatus Mayr, Verhandl. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, 1878, pp. 645, 

 646. 



