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thorax, pedicel, and gaster are chestnut-brown, the legs and antennae 

 yellow. The pilosity is precisely like that of floridana. 



Worker. Head and pronotum very smooth and shining, unlike 

 the same parts in floridana, which are opaque and densely and finely 

 punctate. The antennae are longer, the scapes extending beyond 

 the occipital border of the head. The sparse, erect hairs on the body 

 are blunt but not thickened as in floridana. The color is the same 

 as that of the soldier. 



Female (deiilated). The head has the posterior corners shining but 

 is otherwise opaque and with the longitudinal rugae sharp and extend- 

 ing to the posterior corners. Color like that of the soldier. 



Described from numerous specimens of all three phases from 

 Newton, 3,000 ft. 



*23. Pheidole {Ceratopheidole) hecate Wheeler subsp. bruesi, subsp. nov. 



Soldier. Differing from the subsp. malevola AVheeler as follows: — 

 the head is somewhat smaller. The rugae on the front of the head are 

 less pronounced, and the sides, lateral to the frontal carinae, are very 

 smooth and shining, with only a few short rugae at the anterior border 

 of the cheeks and a few indistinct rugae median to the eyes. The 

 antennal scapes are longer, reaching the posterior corners of the head. 

 The thorax is more shining, with the transverse rugae sharper and more 

 regular and without the punctate interrugal spaces of malevola. The 

 long epinotal spines are distinctly more curved and less erect. The 

 color of the body and appendages is darker, being nearly black, the 

 mandibles darker red, with black borders. 



Worker. Differing from the worker malevola only in its darker color 

 and in the epinotal spines, wliich like those of the soldier are more 

 curved and less erect. 



Described from six soldiers and 26 workers from Newton, 3,000 ft. 



24. Crematog aster steinheili Forel. S . — Kingston. 



Forel now regards this form as a distinct species and not as a 

 variety of victima V. Smith. 



25. Crematogaster brevispinosa Mayr subsp. vicina Ern. Andre. 

 S 9 cf . — Newton, 3,000 ft. (Brues); Kingston (E. A. Andrews, 

 M. Grabham); Balaclava, Troy (A. E. Wight). 



Forel regards this as a subspecies of brevisjnnosa, distinguished from 



