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backwards, and pulling the prize after her. If it is too 
heavy for her unaided efforts, she runs for other foragers. 
As soon as she finds a companion she communicates her 
excitement with a touch of the antenne, and both return 
to drag off the prize. I have seen perhaps a hundred of 
these ants dragging a dead lizard across the floor; the 
lizard was about five inches long, and the ants dragged 
it more than a foot in ten minutes. I never saw these 
ants stop to feed on a discovered morsel; the first im- 
pulse is always to drag it away. They work during the 
day, and also, it would seem, at night. Apparently 
they require water, and they may be found in water jars 
and tumblers drinking. They can also make their way 
over the surface of still water; so that food placed in a 
dish which is set in a plate of water is not always pro- 
tected. I have seen about fifty of these ants dragging a 
large cockroach about three feet up a perpendicular 
smooth-plastered wall. 
(17a). Thicket by the seashore near Wallibou (leeward). 
Oct. 8th. Large colony undera stone. The males were 
numerous, females less go. 
(17b). Golden Grove House (leeward). Oct. 29th. 
400 ft. above the sea. Apparently there are several 
colonies above the house. Great numbers of the workers, 
with larve, were found under a stone, collected in crevices 
of the lower surface; tunnels extended below to six 
inches or more. 
(17c). Near Kingstown. Oct.17th. Large formicarium 
under a stone ; open hill-side, 500 ft. above the sea. 
(17d). Seashore thickets near Chateaubelais (leeward). 
September. Beaten from vines. 
(17¢). Windward side. Open land near sea-level at 
Grand Sable, Jan. 8rd. From several nests under 
stones. ‘The species is common on the windward coast. 
2. Prenolepis fulva, Mayr., r. pubens, nu. st. (No. 58a 
a 58 e). 
%. L.2,8438,4 mill. Ne se distingue guére de la P. fulva 
typique que par sa pubescence plus faible, de sorte que abdomen 
et la téte sont assez luisants et par sa couleur plus foneée, d’up. brun 
roussitre, avec les mandibules et les cdtés de la téte et du thorax 
rougeiatres, les pattes et les antennes d’un jaune brunitre. La 
taille est plutot plus grande. 
g. L. 4,7 mill, Plus petite que la P. fulva in sp. Ailes 
