No. 5.— The Ants of the Phillips Expedition to Palestine during 1914. 
CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE ENTOMOLOGICAL LABORATORY OF THE 
BUSSEY INSTITUTION, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, NO. 107. 
By W. M. WHEELER and W. M. Mann. 
THE junior author, while accompanying Dr. John C. Phillips on a 
recent zodlogical expedition to Palestine and the adjacent countries 
for the Museum of Comparative Zoélogy, succeeded in amassing quite 
a collection of ants. As many collections of these insects have been 
made from time to time in Egypt and Asia Minor and have been care- 
fully described in numerous papers by Ern. André, Emery, Forel, 
Mayr, and Ruzsky, it seemed improbable that another collection 
would contain anything new. After the specimens were mounted 
and examined, however, we were surprised to find among them a new 
and peculiar species of Deromyrma and a few undescribed varieties 
and subspecies of well-known Mediterranean species. We decided, 
therefore, to publish a list of all the forms collected, together with 
such field-notes as seemed interesting. 
FORMICID. 
1. Ponera eduardi Forel. 8 Q (ergatoid).— Baniyas, Syria. 
2. Sima bifoveolata Mayr var. syriaca, var. nov. 
Worker. Agreeing very closely with the typical form described 
from Delagoa Bay and Zanzibar, except in the following characters : — 
the tibize have no suberect hairs, the mandibles have only three instead 
of four or five teeth, and the petiolar node is semicircular in profile. 
The tip of the gaster is not brown. The peculiar paired granular pits 
on the occiput seem to be quite as distinctly developed as in the type. 
Several workers found running on plants at Wady Gazelle, Sinai 
Peninsula. The typical form has been recorded by Mayr only as far 
north as the White Nile where it was taken by Tragardh. 
3. Aphaenogaster splendida Roger, 8 —Rasheya, Syria; in damp, 
shady places, 
