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Camponotus sylvaticus st. maculatus, Forel, Bull. Soc. Vaud. sc. nat. 
(2) xvi. (1879) p. 64. 
Several workers, males and females, Pretoria, Johannes- 
burg (Distant) ; Barberton (Rendall). 
A common and very variable species, found through a great 
part if not all over Africa. 
Camponotus cosmicus, Smith. 
Formica cosmica, Smith, Cat. Hym. B. M. vi. (1858) p. 34.0 
Camponotus cosmicus, Mayr, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxxvi. (1836) 
p. 895. 
Two workers, Waterval-onder (foss). 
Camponotus natalensis, Smith. 
Formica natalensis, Smith, Cat. Hym. B. M. vi. (1858) p. 113. 
Camponotus natalensis, Roger, Verz. d. Form. (1863) p. 2; Forel, Bull. 
Soc. Vaud. sc. nat. (2) xvi. (1879) p. 81; Mayr, Verh. zool.-bot. 
Ges. Wien, xxxvi. (1886) p. 355. 
A single worker, Pretoria (Distant). 
Camponotus fulvo-pilosus, de Geer. 
Formica fulvo-pilosa, de Geer, Mém. Hist. Ins. vii. (1778) p. 618, 
pl. xly. figs. 15 & 14. 
Camponotus fulvopilosus, Mayr, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien (1862), 
p- 668; Forel, Bull. Soc. Vaud. sc. nat. xvi. (1879) p. 108; Emery, 
Bull. Soe. Ent. Ital. xviii. (1886) p. 356. 
Eight worker maj., four worker min., Tulbagh, Cape 
Colony. 
A remarkably handsome and conspicuous species. 
Camponotus sericeus, Fabr. 
Formica sericea, Faby. Ent. Syst., Suppl. (1798) p. 279. 
Camponotus sericeus, Mayr, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xii. (1862) 
p. 675, pl. xix. fig. 4; Forel, Bull. Soe. Vaud. sc. nat. xvi. (1879) 
p. 94; André, Spec. Hym. Eur. ii. pt. 18 (1882) p. 149; Forel, Ann. 
Soc. Ent. Belg. xxx. (1886) p. 192; id. Grandid. Hist. Madagasc. 
xx. (1891) p. 56, 
A single worker, Salisbury, Mashonaland (Marshall). 
Genus PoLYRHACHIS, Smith. 
Polyrhachis schistacea, Gerstacker. 
Hoplomyrmus schistaceus, Gerst. Monatsber. Akad. Wiss. Berl. (1858) 
Payrhackis schistacea, Gerst. v. d. Decken’s Ost-Afrika (1873) p. 342. 
Several workers, Pretoria (Distant); Fort Johnston, 
Nyasaland (Lendall). 
