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31. Tetramorium caespitum Linné subsp. punicum F. Smith var. 
lucidulum Emery. 8 .— Petra, Palestine; Ammik and Baniyas, 
Syria; Mt. Sinai, Sinai Peninsula. The colonies at Petra were 
very populous and were nesting under stones. 
32. Tetramorium caespitum Linné subsp. judas, subsp. nov. 
Worker. Length 2.3-3.5 mm. 
Allied to the subspecies semilaeve Ern. André but the whole body, 
except the mandibles and clypeus, shining and the sculpture very 
feeble. Head much as in semilaeve, with the sides, posterior corners 
and a streak between the front and the posterior corners smooth and 
shining, the rugae on the front delicate and numerous, continued 
nearly or quite to the occiput. Pro- and mesonotum smooth and 
shining, with only traces of rugae at the sides, epinotum subopaque 
and rugose; —pleurae more or less rugose as are also the sides of the 
petiole and postpetiole, the summits of the nodes of the latter shining, 
nearly smooth, or merely indistinctly punctate-rugulose. Gaster 
smooth and shining throughout. Color dark brown; mandibles, cly- 
peus, cheeks, antennae, and legs testaceous. 
Nine specimens from Wady Mojeb, Palestine. 
This form seems to be near the var. splendens Ruzsky of the subsp. 
semilaeve, but we infer that the thorax is more strongly sculptured 
than the head in this form. 
33. Bothriomyrmex meridionalis Roger var. syria Forel. 8 .— Ain 
Gleidat, Palestine; Rasheya and Wady El Katana, Syria; Wady 
Gazelle, Sinai Peninsula. 
34. Tapinoma erraticum Latr. %.— Petra, Palestine; Baruk, 
Syria. 
35. Tapinoma erraticum Latr. subsp. nigerrimum Nyl. 8 .— Petra, 
Palestine; Fuweila, Arabia. 
37. Acantholepis frauenfeldi Mayr. 8 2.— Wady Hisa, Palestine. 
38. Acantholepis frauenfeldi Mayr var. bipartita F. Smith. 8 Q.— 
Rasheya and Wady El Katana, Syria. 
39. Acantholepis carbonaria Emery. 8.— Wady Gazelle, Sinai 
Peninsula. 
40. Acantholepis capensis Mayr var. canescens Emery. 8 .— Two 
workers from Fuweila, Arabia agree very closely with a single 
specimen of this ant from Erythraea in the senior author’s col- 
lection. This variety is also recorded from Kaka on the White 
Nile and from Bogosland and Somaliland. 
