1894.] Entomology. 619 
$. Length 9mm. Ofa uniform brown color. Legs and sometimes 
the tip of the abdomen and the head and thorax, especially beneath, 
are paler. Mandibles finely serrate within; the tip tridentate, middle 
tooth smallest. Palpi invisible, obsolete. * 
Tibs all one-spurred. Scale of the petiole produced into a spine. 
The thorax above is densely striate, the head above with finer stria- 
tions. 
ATTA CLARA Texas. 
$. Uniformly honey-yellow. Scale smaller than in brunnea, not 
forming a spine. 
4. Length. 6 mm. Head ordinary, as wide as long. Eyes oval, 
slightly sinuate both before and behind, black. Ocelli large, white. 
Antennz long as body, not elbowed; brown, except first joint. Man- 
dibles distant, minute, their tips touching. Palpi minute. Wings 
clear, veins yellow, recurrent vein received in base of second submar- 
ginal cell. Entire body and legs yellow. Abdomen hairy, second 
constriction deep, claspers large, scale rounded. 
Wm. Hampron Patron, Hartford, Conn. 
Note on the Winter-Ant.—Since writing the article upon this 
ant (Amer. Nar., Oct., 92) I have found the sexes paired in flight, at 
Hartford, Conn., on the third of August. This indicates the existence 
of a second or summer brood of the species. The male of Prenolepis 
imparis (Say) Patton, measures only about one-eigth of an inch, the 
female is twice as long and much more bulky. The sexes also differ in 
color, the males being black, the workers dark brown, and the females 
dark honey-yellow. 
Wa. HAMPTON PATTON. 
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