348 BRITISH ANTS. 



Habitat : North and Central Europe. 



Berkenhout gives this species as British, but without any locality, 2 

 and Headwick lists it in the plants and animals of Forfarshire 3 ; 

 both records are extremely doubtful. 



Newman said he had been informed that this ant had been 

 taken from pine stumps near Rannoch 4 , but F. Smith thought 

 there was some mistake 5 . Westwood recorded on November 6th, 

 1871, that a Great Woodpecker (Picus martins], which was sup- 

 posed to have been recently shot in Wytham Wood, Oxon, was 

 found to have its crop crammed with perfect specimens of this 

 ant 6 ; but Dunning pointed out that several of these birds, from 

 Norway, were for sale at this time in Leadenhall Market 7 . Bridg- 

 man records females and workers running on some birch bark from 

 New Brunswick (these would be one of the American forms of 

 herculeanus), in a saw-yard at Norwich in April, 1876 9 , and Stainforth 

 a live worker taken in the Western Dock Reserve at Hull in Septem- 

 ber, 1902 13 . 



Camponotus (Camponotus) herculeanus L. subsp. pennsylvanicus 



Retz. 



[" Fourmi de Pensylvanie " Degeer Mem. Hist. Ins. 3 603 (1773) 1 ]. Formica 

 pennsylvanica Retzius Gen. Spec. Ins. Degeer 75 (1783) 2 . Camponotus 

 pennsylvanicus Er. Andre Spec. Hym. Europe 2 141 (1881) 3 . Formica 

 pennsylvatica Sommerville Proc. NH. Soc. Glasgow (n.s.) 1 VII (1883) 4 . 

 Camponotus pennsylvanicus Dalla Torre Cat. Hym. 7 246 (1893) 5 . Cam- 

 ponotus herculeanus pennsylvanicus Wheeler Ann. New York Acad. Sc. 20 

 335 (1910) 6 . Camponotus (Camponotus) herculeanus subsp. pennsylvanicus 

 Forel Rev. Suisse Zool. 22 266 (1914) 7 . 



Habitat : North America. 



Sommerville records living specimens nesting in a log of yellow 

 pine on August 14th, 1883, received in Glasgow from Michigan, 



U.S.A.* 



Camponotus (Camponotus) fallax Nyl. subsp. rasilis Wheeler var. 

 pavidus Wheeler. 



Camponotus fallax rasilis var. pavidus Wheeler Journ. New York Ent. 

 Soc. 18 228 (1910) 1 : Ann. New York Acad. Sc. 20 342 (1910) 2 . 



Habitat : Texas ; Louisiana ; Florida 2 . 



Males, winged females, and workers occurred in some numbers 

 in a cooperage belonging to Messrs. Bulmer, Cider Merchants, Here- 

 ford, in April, 1911. The ants were living in the oak, used for 

 binding the casks, which came from Texas. 



Camponotus (Myrmoturba) maculatus F. subsp. sylvaticus Oliv. 



Formica sylvatica Olivier Encycl. Meth. Ins. 6 491 (179 1) 1 . Camponotus 

 sylvaticus r. sylvaticus Forel Denkschr. Schweiz. Ges. Naturw. 26 39 (1874) 2 . 

 Camponotus sylvaticus Er. Andre Spec. Hym. Europe 2 144 (188 1) 3 . Cam- 



