wheeler: JAMAICAN ANTS. 459 



*19. Pheidole caribbaea subsp. sloanei, subsp. nov. 



Soldier. Differing from the typical form in the following particu- 

 lars: — the head is a little smaller, the sculpture of the head and espe- 

 cially of the thorax, pedicel, and gaster is distinctly feebler and more 

 superficial, the occipital corners of the head being smooth and shining 

 and the pronotum somewhat shining, though transversely rugose 

 above. The rugae on the head lateral to the front are not longitudi- 

 nal but reticulate, or at any rate indistinctly longitudinal, whereas 

 they are sharply longitudinal in the typical form. The hairs on the 

 body and appendages are longer and more abundant. The color is 

 paler, the body and legs being dark brown throughout or with only the 

 scapes and metanotum darker or blackish. The tarsi arc yellowish 

 as in the type. 



Worker. Like the worker of the typical form but of a slightly paler 

 brown color and with the hairs on the legs and scapes longer and less 

 oblique and those on the head and thorax more numerous. 



Female. Differing from the female of the typical caribbaea in nearly 

 the same characters as the soldier. The occipital border of the head is 

 shining, but the anteromedian shining streak on the mesonotum is 

 somewhat less pronounced. Wings long, colorless, with dark brown 

 pterdstigma and very pale brown veins. 



Described from eight soldiers, one worker, and three females taken 

 at Newton, 3,000 ft. 



*20. Pheidole punctalissima Roger subsp. jamaicensis Wheeler var. 

 barbouri Wheeler. 01 S • — Cinchona, 5,000 ft. 



Almost indistinguishable from the types. Possibly imported with 

 plants into Jamaica from Cuba. 



21. Pheidole flavens Roger. % y. — Kingston. 

 *22. Pheidole floridana Emery subsp. stomachosa, subsp. nov. 



Soldier. Differing from the typical floridana in having distinctly 

 longer antennae and the longitudinal rugae on the clypeus and anterior 

 portion of the head more pronounced. They are also present lateral 

 to the frontal carinae on the feeble scrobe-like depressions which arc 

 merely finely and densely punctate in floridana. The humeral angles 

 and lateral conules of the postpetiole are more acute. The sculpture 

 of the thorax is more pronounced but that of the petiole and post- 

 petiole is feebler so that these segments are more shining. The gaster 

 is opaque and finely punctate at the extreme base above. The head, 



