wheeler: JAMAICAN ANTS. 4()5 



Pilosity and pubescence similar to those of the worker, but antennal 

 scapes nude and tibiae with delicate oblic|ue hairs. 



Color entirely yellowish red in some specimens, in others yellowish 

 brown, with the occipital portion of the head and segmental bands on 

 the gaster dark brown, the disc of the scutellum and three vague bands 

 on the mesonotum pale brown. AVings colored like those of the 

 female. 



Described from numerous specimens of all four phases from Ligua- 

 nea Plain (Brues), Montego Bay (Amer. Mus. Coll.). Kingston (Forel), 

 and Port Henderson (Paulmier). 



It seemed advisable to describe this ant in detail as it has never been 

 adequately described and as its taxonomic status seems to be doubtful. 

 Its identification has been accepted on Forel's authority, but when we 

 turn to Smith's brief description of Formica conspicua, based on a 

 female specimen from Jamaica, it is by no means certain that Forel's 

 interpretation is correct. Smith says that his specimen measures 

 5-5.5 lines and is "chestnut red; the head about the same width as 

 the thorax, slightly excavated behind; the clypeus subcarinate in 

 the middle, its anterior margin slightly but widely emarginate; 

 mandibles strong, punctured and armed with four or five teeth." 

 The petiolar scale is "wide, ovate, with the margin entire." Now 

 several points in this description, such as the size, strong mandibles, 

 and the shape of the clypeus fit the female of C. hannani Forel much 

 better than the form he identified as conspiciius, although this is not 

 true of the petiole. Mayr, who in 1884 examined Smith's type in the 

 British Museum, says only that it is "ein Camponotus mit abstehend 

 behaarten Tibien." This would also agree with the long tibial pilosity 

 of hannani, especially as he would hardly single out the very short 

 tibial hairs of Forel's catispiciais as a noteworthy character. It seems 

 probable, therefore, that Forel's haujiani is a synonym of Smith's 

 conspicuns and that Forel's conspicuus should be renamed, but as this 

 can be decided only by comparison of both species with Smith's type, 

 I accept Forel's interpretation provisionally. 



*35. Camponotus {Myrmoturba) ma<:ulatus Fabr. subsp., jamaiccnsis, 

 subsp. nov. 



Worker maxima. (Fig. 2 a, c). Length 7.5-8.5 mm. 



Head large, trapezoidal, longer than broad, with rather straight 

 sides and broadly excavated occipital border. Eyes small, feebly 

 convex. Mandibles 5-6 toothed. Clypeus strongly carinate, its 



