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FOIIM:IO^ B'XJSCA. Linn. 



Subsp, SUBPOLITA Mayr, var., PERPILOSA, n. var. 



TJniversity of Texas. 



WoRKER. Length 3.-5. 5 tnm. 



Head red, witli tlie (írown a,nñ occiput more or less inf us- 

 cafced or black. Thorax, petiole, legs and antennae red, the 

 first sometimes slightly infuscated except at the sutures. Gas- 

 ter black. 



Body and legs smooth and shining, the surf ace o£ the trunk 

 and cOxBB finely coriaceous. Metathorax and epinotum subo- 

 paque, owing to the more pronounced coríation which passes 

 on the metapleurae into a system of fine, parallel ruges inter- 

 sected by another system of f ainter lines. '"^ /"í'/Y 



Whole trunk beset with long, orect, subobtuse, sílvery 

 white hairs. Those on the lower surface of the head few but 

 always distinct. Hairs more abundant on the juandíbles,^ oly- 

 peus, head, thoracic dórsum and petiolar margin, and most 

 abundant and oonspicuous on the gaster. On the legs the hairs 

 are sparse and suberect and mostly confined to the flexor sur- 

 faces of the fenaora and tibise. 



Female. Length 7. 5-9 mm. •-'*- >y 



Ooloration like that of the worker with the following'ino- 



difications: Mesonotum with a median black blotch near its 



anterior border and a smaller blotch on either si de near the 



