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COEKECTIONS AND ADDITIONS TO "LIST OF TYPE 



SPECIES OF THE GENEEA AND SUBOENEPA 



OF FOEMICID^" 



By William Morton Wheeler 



Since my list of generic and subgeneric types of the Formicidae was 

 published/ Mr. Sievert Eohwer has kindly called my attention to some 

 type determinations of earlier dates than those I recorded and especially 

 to the genus Cephalotes Latreille, which has been incorrectly cited by 

 Dalla Torre in his "Catalogus Hymenopterorum" and generally ignored 

 by myrmecologists. Prof. Carlo Emery has called attention to a few omis- 

 sions and incorrect determinations of types/ and I have myself detected 

 several others. While seizing the opportunity to make corrections, I have 

 added the types of a number of new genera and subgenera established 

 during or since the publication of my paper. In this list of additions 

 there are a number of subgenera of Camponotus recently published by 

 Forel. Strangely enough, he does not designate the types, although noth- 

 ing could have been more necessary in splitting up such a huge and per- 

 plexing genus as Camponotus. When he mentions several species belong- 

 ing to one of these new subgenera, I have uniformly selected the first as 

 the type, not because I am an unqualified adherent to the "first species 

 rule," but because Forel probably intended to indicate the first species as 

 the type. 



Corrections 



Aneleus Emery. — I cited Solenopsis similis Mayr as the type of this 

 subgenus, supposing it to be monobasic, but this is far from being the 

 case. Emery cites six species of Pheidologeton as belonging to Aneleus, 

 and as he mentions Ph. pygmceus Emery as the first in his list, this should 

 be regarded as the type, especially as the soldier or most characteristic 

 phase of the oldest known species, 8. similis, has not been described. 



Atopogyne Forel. — Emery prefers to regard Formica depressa La- 

 treille as the type of this subgenus, instead of Crematogaste?- liellenica 

 Fore], the species I selected, because depressa is the most characteristic 



1 Annals N. Y. Acad. Sci., Vol. XXI, pp. 157-175. 1911. 



2 Les Especes-Type des Genres et Sous-Genres de la Famille des Formicides. Ann. 

 Soc. Ent. Belg., LVI, pp. 2.31-233. 1912. 



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